Ben Miller Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
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I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.
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But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
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I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.
