Jonny Lee Miller Quotes
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
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When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
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It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.
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I only wanted to help my people.
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I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.
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Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
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I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would take up engineering or medicine or something else, but acting was not an option.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.
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Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may be being a lawyer, it may be making a beautiful cabinet, it may be being a spectacular dry cleaner. It could be anything. We all have gifts in different areas.
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I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.
