Margaret Millar Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
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If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
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I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.
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Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.
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I told them to set picks for each other. I told Chris Thompson to get it inside to Ryan Grayson or Cortez. Cortez got the rebound and put it back up.
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Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.
