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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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
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There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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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.
