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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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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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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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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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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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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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 the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
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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.
