Arthur Miller Quotes
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I am a Zionist.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I like to do Pilates.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.
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I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.
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I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
