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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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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The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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Give light and people will find the way.
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My career choice was to be a mother.
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I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday.
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If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
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I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
