Ben Miller Quotes
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
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I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
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I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
