Bennett Miller Quotes

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
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• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
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• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
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• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
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• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
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• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
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• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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• Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
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• Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

  

  Ramez Naam
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  • Rise

• Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Done
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• As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

  

  Matt Bomer

• Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
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• You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
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• If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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• A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

  

  Bennett Miller
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