T. J. Miller Quotes
'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably a leader in the space. A lot of times, we actually use virtual ways to communicate our brand and do some of our advertising, first on the social space, then we do on physical advertising.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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I dare you to put me in a back alley with Randy Orton or someone like that. I guarantee I'm not afraid of someone taller.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
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Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.
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I am not carefree. I'm just not. I experience an immense amount of joy, a crazy amount of joy through sadness and so much struggle. There's something problematic about 'carefree black girl.'
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
