Ben Miller Quotes
Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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I'm really comfortable with myself.
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I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.
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If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.
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I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
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Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.