Bennett Miller Quotes
I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, 'What're you talking about? Shut up.' And I realised that I was the weird one.
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Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.
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Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.
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I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.
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I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.
