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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.


Bennett Miller

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ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk ...
ALAN BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETT There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
BO BENNETT Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town,...
HENRY BENNETT The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.
DAN BENNETT Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be...
BO BENNETT There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
WILLIAM BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission
ARNOLD BENNETT The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme ...
ARNOLD BENNETT A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must b...
ARNOLD BENNETT Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
ARNOLD BENNETT