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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Tom Ford does everything perfect.
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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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It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.
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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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It's all about who gets to work and making sure they're legally present in our country. And to do that nationally E-verify becomes a key component. It certainly needs to available, effective and as inexpensive as possible and that employer needs to use it as a tool. Some of the arguments that are made about how it works or does not work don't carry much water with me. I've already used it for several years. It works.
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If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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I love actors.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.
