Bennett Miller Quotes
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
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Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.
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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
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I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.
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I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.
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I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.
