Ben Miller Quotes
I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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I have no regrets.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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'The Theory Of Everything' was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don't think anybody working on it did.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.
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Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.
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When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
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If I start thinking about who's on the opposing team and I've got to play well against that team, then the next night when we play against guys without the big names, then you don't play so well. So you try and keep a consistent approach.
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I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
