Ben Miller Quotes
I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out.
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It is only by trying new things that we can hope to create products that are original. Don't just say those words; act like you believe them.
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I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
