Bennett Miller Quotes
Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.Bennett Miller
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
Ed Westwick -
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
Damien Chazelle -
I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
Dana Torres -
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
Dabney Coleman
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
Cameron Diaz -
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Idris Elba -
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. Mencken -
I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
Yani Tseng -
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
Karin Slaughter -
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
Wayne Dyer
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
Fiona Apple -
I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
Kalpana Chawla -
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
Walter Jon Williams -
It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani, is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
Harold Rosenberg -
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
Irving Layton
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Art and order, the relative that refuse to relate.
Elfriede Jelinek -
I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
Jan Karon -
Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.
David Lange -
It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
C. S. Lewis -
And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?
Elizabeth Goudge -
Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
Bennett Miller