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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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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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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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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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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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
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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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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
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The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.
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We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see.
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I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
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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.
