Bennett Miller Quotes
I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.
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Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.
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I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.
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I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.
