Margaret Millar Quotes

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Margaret Millar

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Wish
  • Fire
  • Story

• I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Content

• I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Hair
  • Easy
  • Short

• Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Great
  • Bedrooms

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • People
  • Bad
  • Same

• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • Faith

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • People
  • Great
  • City

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • People
  • Business
  • Minds

• Early Indian visitors to the Taj, who came either as pilgrims or sightseers, were far outnumbered by those going elsewhere. And this continues. Today it is seen by two million Indians per year. The Tirupati temple in southern India, meanwhile welcomes nearly twelve million pilgrims per year. Yet it is the Taj that is recognized as the symbol of India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Today

• I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wish