T. J. Miller Quotes
Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
