"There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good."

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Source : "Director Mike Mills Exclusive Interview BEGINNERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2011.

Mike Mills

#Grief Quotes #Drunkenness Quotes

“I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.”
“I focused on the passing houses filled with couples whoâ€™d somehow survived this teenage craziness of â€˜he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just canâ€™t win.â€™ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.”
“As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world. In fact, 'I was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one first said Mother. That left me out of American literature, for sure.”
“I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.”
“I donâ€™t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I supposeÂ that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course theyâ€™d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.”
“Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.”
“If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.”
“Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.”

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