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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When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'
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I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.
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Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
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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.
