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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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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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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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
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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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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
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My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
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One thing we have built over the years is credibility and we have big, small and medium artists, Australian artists or international artists.
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The most important thing is jobs.
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A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
