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 call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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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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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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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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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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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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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
