Ben Miller Quotes
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.
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My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
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When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
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The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.
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I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.
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We were raised in a family that had high aspirations for their children, and those high aspirations tended to be along the lines of service and high-minded beliefs, living up to your responsibilities. Both my Danforth grandparents admired service very much.
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The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
