J.R. Miller Quotes

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

Why change the world? Change worlds!

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

I live alone, so I dont really talk to anyone once Im home. I have some silent nights.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

The cancer of time is eating us away

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.