T. J. Miller Quotes
Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
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What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.
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Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.
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There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
