Ben Miller Quotes
It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
Quotes to Explore
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
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And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.
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Talented people are restless at their core.
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It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
