Margaret Millar Quotes
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I don't like controversy.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.
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If you're going to do something, you do it all the way.
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.'
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Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.
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The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
