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.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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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.
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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.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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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.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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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.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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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.
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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.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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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.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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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.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.
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There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
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I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
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It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.
