Arthur Miller Quotes
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down…. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
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Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
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I enjoy money.
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I'm a fake intellectual.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.
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You can sense their anger before they even say a word.
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The intelligence of the universe is social.
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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
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Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
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In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.
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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down…. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.