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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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
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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 Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
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We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.
