Ben Miller Quotes
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
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The Jones Act is an important tool to maintain Northeast Florida's domestic ship repair industry, which is so vital to our Navy and national security.
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I owe a lot to my parents.
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I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.
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I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.
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I like to set aggressive targets; without them, you will get ordinary performances.
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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
