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'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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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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Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
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I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.
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Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.
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I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
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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.
