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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When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!
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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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Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?
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I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.
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Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.
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I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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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.
