Mcmillian Quotes & Sayings

I was in my late twenties and about to start my fourth year at the SPDC when I met Walter McMillian. His case was one of the flood of cases I'd found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. The state had nearly a hundred people on death row as well as the fastest-growing condemned population in the country, but it also had no public defender system, which meant that large numbers of death row prisoners had no legal representation of any kind. — Bryan Stevenson

... in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose. — Primo Levi

The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up. — Tony McCoy

I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them. — Terry McMillian

A majority can do anything. — Joseph Gurney Cannon

So defendants like Walter McMillian, even in counties that were 40 or 50 percent black, frequently found themselves staring at all-white juries, especially in death penalty cases. Then, in 1986, the Supreme Court ruled in Batson v. Kentucky that prosecutors could be challenged more directly about using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner, giving hope to black defendants - and forcing prosecutors to find more creative ways to exclude black jurors. — Bryan Stevenson

I want to work on the 'True Blood' comic for as long as they'll let me. — Michael McMillian

about my experiences while living with a fatigued, pregnant woman. I'm going to entitle it, The Girl with the Draggin' Caboose. — McMillian Moody

You can live each day in a world filled with 'problems,' or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions ... eager for you to find them. The decision is yours ... both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create. — Michael McMillian

Co-writing the 'True Blood' comic is a dream come true both as a performer on the show and as longtime comic fan. It's a real privilege to build on the rapidly growing 'True Blood' mythology. — Michael McMillian

When I approached Volume 1 of 'Lucid,' I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show. — Michael McMillian

Most stories in 'True Blood' take place over a short amount of time. I think the entire three seasons of the show have only spanned a month and a half of those characters' lives. — Michael McMillian

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards. — C.S. Lewis

What you believe and focus on becomes your reality. — Michael McMillian

I'm hooked on 'Game of Thrones.' I'm a fan of the books and the show. — Michael McMillian

I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been because of reason and not religion. I think religion has been pulled along by reason and that's why we read The Bible now so differently, even believers. — Rebecca Goldstein

Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival. — Michael McMillian

I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I was going to Comic-Con. He called me a loser for not going that first year. — Michael McMillian

the Los Angeles Times surmised that "hippies, property owners, . . . and police are involved in a conflict with social overtones that far transcend Venice." The police hated the hippies, "whom they regarded as wastrels infiltrated by hard-core criminals and left-wing political extremists. — John McMillian

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time. — Michael McMillian

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback. — Michael McMillian

I really want to do a 'True Blood-Six Feet Under' comic book crossover. — Michael McMillian

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially. — Ashley Montagu

There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now. — Natalie Goldberg

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. — Michael McMillian

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny. — Karl Lagerfeld

Movement is meditation. Move to win. — Conor McGregor

For every problem, there exists a solution ... and at the very least ... an opportunity. — Michael McMillian

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians. — Michael McMillian