Andrew Miller Quotes
Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.
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Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
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Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.
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Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.
