T. J. Miller Quotes
I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
