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'm a competitor and work hard every day.
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I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
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Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
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There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.
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I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.
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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.
