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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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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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 feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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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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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.
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That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.
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The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.
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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!
