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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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.
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Nine-eleven was an act of war. The villains aren’t the terrorists. The villains live in the White House.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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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.
