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
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

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

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

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

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
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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
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

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

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

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

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• 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
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

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

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Drunk
  • Before
  • Got

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

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
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  • Medicine
  • Practicing

• 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
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

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

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

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

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

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

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Wealth
  • Environmental
  • Rise

• The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Men
  • Future
  • Red

• What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • World
  • Live
  • Done

• There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • True
  • Death

• Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.

  

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

  

  Bennett Miller
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