Ben Miller Quotes
For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win
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Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
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Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
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I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
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For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
