T. J. Miller Quotes
I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I love to work with performers that are very different to me.
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I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.
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Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.
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Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.
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Our nation truly owes a debt of gratitude to all who have served and sacrificed on behalf of this great country.
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Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
