Bennett Miller Quotes
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
