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'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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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
