I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. - Mike Mills

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I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

Mike Mills

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Ideas, Inanimate Objects, Intrigued, Life, Objects, Pieces

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Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

Dies, Grief, Memories, Memory, Together

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

Ethic, Ethics, Felt, Should, Told

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

Connection, Grew, Hate, Make, Sadness, Thinking

My dad's 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.

Dad, Experiences, Gay, Positive, Straight, Writing

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Connection, Connections, Grieving, Nerves, Poetic

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Kevin Rudd

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

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Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

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