Arthur Miller Quotes
A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I've never been a partier.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
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Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.
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I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
