Arthur Miller Quotes
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Quotes to Explore
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
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I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
