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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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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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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My belief is that despite all the media hoopla, there is much more that unites Republicans than divides us.
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If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.
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By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
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Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
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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.
