Alice Duer Miller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
-
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
-
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
-
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
-
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
-
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
-
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
-
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
-
The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
-
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
-
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
-
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
-
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
-
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
-
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
-
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
-
I love being in a courtroom.
-
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
-
I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.
-
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
-
Life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.
-
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
-
If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.
-
People love to talk but hate to listen.
