Bennett Miller Quotes

I really tried to get comfortable with the notion of shooting digital on 'Foxcatcher' and just couldn't. I shot many tests and experimented with all sorts of techniques to manipulate it into a place that worked for us, but it just didn't happen.

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Manicure

• I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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• Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
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• That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sports
  • Fans
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• I'm running for governor because I think we need to change things in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Think
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• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
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  • Symptom

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
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  • Old

• The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.

  

  Karen Mills
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  • Invest
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• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
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• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
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• The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• Calumnies are answered best with silence.

  

  Ben Jonson
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• It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

  

  Ayn Rand
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• You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
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• If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul; that alone matters; it is that which the sculptor or painter should seek beneath the mask of features.

  

  Auguste Rodin
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• Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Learning
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• Failure is always an option.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Failure
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• Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

  

  Michael Hogan
  • Shows
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• I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

  

  Jodi Rell
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  • Angry

• I would encourage women to think about leaders in different fields or companies who they can draw parallels with. For example, I am constantly studying the lives and lessons of leaders in fields outside of technology, from the arts to politics. There is always something to learn.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Different
  • Women
  • Technology

• I really tried to get comfortable with the notion of shooting digital on 'Foxcatcher' and just couldn't. I shot many tests and experimented with all sorts of techniques to manipulate it into a place that worked for us, but it just didn't happen.

  

  Bennett Miller