Bennett Miller Quotes
I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!
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Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
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We can't afford to be killing one another.
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Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.
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Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
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The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
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I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.
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I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.
