Arthur Miller Quotes
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Quotes to Explore
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
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Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
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You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.
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...as you'll know, the word 'fuck' sort of is used quite a lot in my house. Now, that's not to say, I think to say 'fuck this' or 'fuck you' a lot more, so it should be entered into the English language, because it has a lot more impact when you say, 'I fucking hate this thing.'
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I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
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I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.
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I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
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I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
