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!
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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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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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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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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
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The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
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To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
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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!
