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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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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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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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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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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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.
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The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.
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I have to go through that arc with Dolores, and I didn't know what my arc was going to be. We found out episode by episode, and the more it went on, the more I felt a change in myself and allowed myself to be strong and to get angry and to access emotions that I don't normally, and I think a lot of women don't because we're kind of conditioned not to. It's freed me in a way, and it made me find a strength in myself.
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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.
