Arthur Miller Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.
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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
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Living in London as a student is tough. And my heart goes out to every single drama student in London because, as an actor, it's a creative process that you are taking on, and if you don't get to do it every day, it hurts.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
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You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!
