Arthur Miller Quotes
He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son… all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
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I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.
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Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
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I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son… all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
