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.
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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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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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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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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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A leader must realize his subordinate leaders will be killed or wounded. He must prepare and train other leaders to step up and take over. He, himself, must train his next-in-line to take command in event he is killed, wounded, or evacuated.
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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.
