Bruce Beresford Quotes
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.
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Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.
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There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
