J.R. Miller Quotes

I think the main message is that world rugby needs New Zealand and New Zealand needs world rugby.

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes.

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

There are great characters on television.

The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

I'm learning that when you get out into the world and you try things, it's amazing that you'll find how strong you are when you have to be.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers.

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

Do that which will make you happiest both now and in the future.

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

There is never just one way to say something, and there is always another way to say something.

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss.

Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.

There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it.

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.