"Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive."

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Source : "SFIFF ’11: Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills Talk The Sadness, Humor & Joy Of ‘Beginners’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. April 25, 2011.

Mike Mills

#Sadness Quotes #Important Quotes #Unattractive Quotes

“A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.”
“What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.”
“Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)”
“I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.”
“... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles again? She has like a million. But every one of them means something to me. Isn't this how people used to fall in love? I know we're living in Rubenstein's America, like you keep saying. But doesn't that just make us even more responsible for each other's fates? I mean, what if Eunice and I just said no to all this. To this bar. To this FACing. The two of us. What if we just went home and read books to each other?”
“I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.”
“Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.”
“I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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