Ben Miller Quotes
Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavid Hood
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
J. R. Smith
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Tadao Ando
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
Barry Diller
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
Baba Kalyani
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
O. Winston Link
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
Olivier Theyskens
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
Gary Bauer
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C. S. Lewis
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In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Ville Valo HIM
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I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
F. Murray Abraham
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In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
Rakul Preet Singh
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But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
Dan Hicks
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I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
Pam Grier
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The (threshold in the) prospectus is at 90 percent. We want the whole of the company.
J. M. Roberts
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Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing.
Ben Miller