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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When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
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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'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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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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To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.
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He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
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I didn't feel the need to tell people, except for a very, very few, as it was not in any way affecting my work.
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
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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.
