Ben Miller Quotes
You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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'24' is such a unique show. I've done a lot of television, but the real-time aspect - where we're shooting over 10 months and actually only doing one day - it's just crazy.
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Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
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I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
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Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.
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You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?
