Chuck Miller Quotes
We came into this season believing it was going to be a rebuilding year. The kids were the ones that believed they could be here today. Our goal is always to make it to the championship and I'm sure some people around the conference didn't believe we could do it.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
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The best advice I received came late, and it's this: Don't read the comments section of any story that mentions you!
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
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A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.
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It takes time and a lot of looking around, but you eventually find that your home is a lot more than just the house you live in. Brás had all the time in the world to figure that out. He discovered your country can be your home, or a city, or just that particular neighborhood. Sometimes your life changes--you change--and your home moves to a different place. Brás realized that home is not a physical place at all, but a group of elements like the people you live with--a feeling, a state of mind. He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away... there is a home... waiting for him to return. It's where he can rest. Where he finds peace.
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My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse
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We came into this season believing it was going to be a rebuilding year. The kids were the ones that believed they could be here today. Our goal is always to make it to the championship and I'm sure some people around the conference didn't believe we could do it.
