Will Miller
Will Miller
Will Milleris an American rower. He is a five time US National Team Member and competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics placing 4th. He grew up in Duxbury, MA and received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. His father, Bill Miller, was also a US Olympic rower...
turtles bud doe
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
thinking play theatre
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
one-day specialization
You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
success country thinking
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.
life names numbers
They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."
expression finals abandonment
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
ifs
Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
mistake men thumbs
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
lying optimistic men
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.
dream doors blood
The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.
giving way
Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.
writing years play
My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.
frustration thinking class
There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.
world firsts being-there
You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.