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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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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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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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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I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.
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Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
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I thought Oasis were great.
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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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.
