Bennett Miller Quotes
I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
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I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.
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You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.
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'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.
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Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.
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When I came to England, everybody was indoors all the time, and nobody said hello to each other. That was weird.
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By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.
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I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.
