Jonathan Miles Quotes

It's often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles, wicked speed, and fighter-plane acrobatics, doves are more difficult to take down.

Jonathan Miles

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PracticeMeUpside DownDuckSpeed

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

Jessica Chastain

FocusPeopleMeFeelYouConnection

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Andy Murray

FailureFearReachYouKnowingOut

Unfortunately, I used to play in goal, and I broke my hand. Two fingers. The ball hit me and bent my fingers back. I used to play every Sunday. I was quite competitive.

John Rocha

MeBackGoalSundayPlayHand

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Amy Goodman

GovernmentWarPosingMoreParade

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

Stephan Pastis

CharacterTruthBookTruth IsThink

I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

Tony Dorsett

LightWalkDarknessGrowing UpNight

Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.

Robin S. Sharma

OpportunitiesPushYouPossibleUp

I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

Roscoe Mitchell

MusicAttentionYouRunNeverOut

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

Rowan Atkinson

WorkEnjoyLazyBecauseJust

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Dennis Miller

BusinessMomentFightWarPeople

Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

DeRay Mckesson

ChangeOvernightSystemicRarely

Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

Diablo Cody

LivePeopleMeWhiteSituationGo

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