Ben Miller Quotes
I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age
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I couldn’t possibly do a love story like Maine Pyar Kiya. I can perhaps do a more mature love story. Then again, we tried a love story with Silsila but it didn’t work. One thing is for sure, we can’t be doing what Salman is doing.
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Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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While there's life, there's fear.
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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
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Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.
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Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
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I knew my body could take the battle of everyday training and take the battle of falls and bending in ways that bodies really shouldn't bend.
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Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
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I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
