Beatrice Miller Quotes
I’m not a paper doll. Can’t make me what you want. You just build me up and tear me down. Enough’s enough. Go, leave me alone. Cut me down but I won’t fall. I’m not a paper doll.
Quotes to Explore
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.
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I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.
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The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
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I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
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I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.
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My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.
