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Laura Miller Quotes

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

Laura Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1958

Topics

Family Sacrifice City You Dream

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

Joan Didion

Me Writing Start Kind Fade Out

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

John Lasseter

Character Walk Writing Building Look

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

John McCarthy

Professional Worse Even Than Amateur

Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.

Matt Flynn

Football Fun People Me Game You

A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Great Talent Down Just Gimmick

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Robert Crais

Good Vision Enough Astronaut

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

Robin DiAngelo

Women Color Black White Undermine

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.

Michael Keaton

Church Mission Find California Old

The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.

Chris Hadfield

Beauty Social Media Space Maturity

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

Connie Nielsen

Work Me Think You Mad Movies

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Clifton Fadiman

Work Eat Order Recollection Main

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.

Claude Rains

Work Home Me Place Hollywood County