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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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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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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Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
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I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!
