Bennett Miller Quotes

It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Watching

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Character
  • Down

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Failure

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • God
  • Truth
  • True

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Free
  • Everyday
  • Morality

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Different
  • Success
  • Challenge

• Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Style

• I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Literature

• When I'm writing I don't feel any pressure. It's after I'm done that I start freaking out. But really, when I'm in Lebanon, I don't write much because I'm surrounded by family. I feel immersed, or enmeshed, in too many currents. I love that, but it's not conducive to writing. In San Francisco, nothing interferes with me but my cats.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Done

• It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Work
  • Support