Keith Miller Quotes
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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I want to go down in history.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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I still like to make crank calls.
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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.
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Turpe quidem dictu, sed, si modo vera fatemur,vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.
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But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight -Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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The city will gain beauty worthy of its name and to you it will be useful by its revenues, and the eternal fame of its aggrandizement.
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Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
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If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.
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Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.
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I was 10 years old when I first heard Ginuwine. I remember being at a friend's house, and the music video came on. I was just like, 'What is that?' I was just kind of drawn from there.
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The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
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We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.
