T. J. Miller Quotes
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.
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Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
