Bennett Miller Quotes
Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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As members of society, we should always be pushing our girls to strive to be the best and to speak up and out about issues we see.
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable.
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Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.
