Bennett Miller Quotes
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
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He’s expected at noon, and no wight till he comesMay profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums;For the best of the cheer, and the seat by the fire,Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar.
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As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
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I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.
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James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.
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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
