Calvin Miller Quotes
Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
