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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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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I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.
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The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.
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I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.
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Not only was Edwin Land one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
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...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
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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.
