Bennett Miller Quotes
I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.
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Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
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Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.
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Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane,East wind and frost are safely gone;With zephyr mild and balmy rainThe summer comes serenely on;Earth, air, and sun and skies combineTo promise all that’s kind and fair:-But thou, O human heart of mine,Be still, contain thyself, and bear.
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
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I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
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The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.
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It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
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People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.
