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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The best advice about women was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."
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Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.
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Well, Gaffer his early friend Mr. Wells, artist I see there will be no peace till I comply; so give me a piece of paper. There, now, rule the size for me, and tell me what I am to do. Mr. Wells told him: 'Well divide your subject into classes, say: Pastoral, Marine, Elegant Pastoral, and so forth..'
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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
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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.
