Patina Miller Quotes
I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.
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There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.
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Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
