Jonny Lee Miller Quotes

I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

Jonny Lee Miller

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• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
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  • Nothing

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Truth
  • Arts

• I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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  • Thought
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• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
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  • Love
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• You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

  

  Ed Koch
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• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
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• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
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• However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

  

  Mary Beard
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• I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

  

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• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

  

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• I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • School
  • Business
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• My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

  

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  • Life
  • Work
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• It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

  

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  • People
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• There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

  

  Lea Salonga
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• You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

  

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• I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.

  

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• I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

  

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• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

  

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• The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

  

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• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Book
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• To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

  

  Charles Nodier
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• I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Mean