Amy Miller Quotes
So much of comedy starting out is you just to have to fake being in control because there is nothing less funny than someone on stage who does not seem to be driving the ship. That is the room; that is the collective experience. If the person in the middle of it doesn’t seem in control, then it all goes off the rails.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
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To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
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Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
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It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.
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So much of comedy starting out is you just to have to fake being in control because there is nothing less funny than someone on stage who does not seem to be driving the ship. That is the room; that is the collective experience. If the person in the middle of it doesn’t seem in control, then it all goes off the rails.
