Caroline Adams Miller Quotes
People who have grit – they hate doing hard work. They hate it as much as we do. But, the thing is, they find a way to do it.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
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I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
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I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
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Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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As an actor, I trust my ear.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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People who have grit – they hate doing hard work. They hate it as much as we do. But, the thing is, they find a way to do it.
