Jonny Lee Miller Quotes
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
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The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
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I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.
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When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
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Some people can handle fame, some can't.
