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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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'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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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.
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They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.
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The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
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If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
