Quote by Mike Mills
My dads gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me

My dads gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships – how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love. – Mike Mills

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People ask How does doing a film compare to doing an ad? Well, when youre doing a commercial you dont have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film. – Mike Mills

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Freedom
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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 theres so much shame around it. If you have it youre a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive. – Mike Mills

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Theres some movies I watch, theyre kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker. – Mike Mills

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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. – John L. Phillips

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Im looking out for myself, but Im looking out for my dad, too. – Jamie Redknapp

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I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third times a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. – Rodney Atkins

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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well. – Larry Elder

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Sometimes laughing isnt the best judge of whats funny, cause I think theres a lot of things that are really funny that dont make you laugh, that dont make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that. – Tim Heidecker

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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good mans love. – Euripides

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My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son. – Laura Schlessinger

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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. – Emily Dickinson

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