Sue Miller Quotes

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Sue Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1943

Topics

RelationshipGriefSufferingPerson

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

Melissa McCarthy

TeenCageWhereBeenShouldPut

When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn't care less about that leader's temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

Robert Jeffress

LeaderSonLookingGunCareTable

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.

Robert H. Goddard

VisionManFirstJokeOnceEvery

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.

Matt Roper

LoveFreeStrangersNeedComedians

There is no more final end than death.

John Thaw

DeathEndMoreFinalThan

I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a little brooch there and maybe a vintage jacket.' I'm so impressed with girls who look terrific in a little thing they picked up at the local charity shop. I just look scruffy when I try to do vintage.

Sophie Winkleman

VintageThinkCharityLookScarfUp

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch

CreativityMenSpiritualLaborMay

Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.

Trevor Noah

ComedyNobodyIdeaOwnsPremise

I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.

Deontay Wilder

GreatPeopleMePerformanceWant

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

Denis Villeneuve

CinemaIdeaLikeSpectacle

I went to a soccer high school, and it was really different to being on 'Idol.' So I decided to quit school, and I put all my energy into music, and things started to happen.

Astrid S

MusicSchoolEnergyHigh SchoolQuit

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Marion Jones

I AmWillAlwaysContinueFactAm

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