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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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26 is my favourite number.
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
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I was just suggesting some times to discuss things at future meetings in order to set up agendas ahead of time so that we know what's coming down the line. I don't think we need to discuss that in the meeting.
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Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.
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If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
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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.
