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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
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Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple.
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I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.
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The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.
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We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.
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Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
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When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.
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I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.
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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.
