Ben Miller Quotes
Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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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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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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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
