Bennett Miller Quotes
Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
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If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.
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My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.
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Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
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Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.
