T. J. Miller Quotes
My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
-
As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
-
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
-
People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
-
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
-
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
-
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
-
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
-
I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
-
My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
-
There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
-
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
-
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
-
'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
-
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
-
In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
-
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
-
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
-
I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.
-
I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
-
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.
-
When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.
-
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.
-
My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
