T. J. Miller Quotes
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.
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People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
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I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
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The Italians have shown consistently that they live by the rule of law. They have given these undertakings and we expect them to abide by them.
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It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
