T. J. Miller Quotes
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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Act because you love to act.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
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There is always room for improvement in our game.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
