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.

Bruce Beresford

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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Imagination
  • Thought
  • Cats

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Sex

• The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Information
  • Blockchain

• Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Learn
  • Partner

• 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.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Play
  • New
  • Vampire

• 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.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• 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.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Law
  • Police
  • Gun

• Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Bad
  • Excuses

• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writers
  • Readers
  • Publishers

• 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.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Women
  • Fun

• In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Help
  • Energy

• I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • Want
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Attention
  • Player

• On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Learned
  • Landscape
  • Workers

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Guy
  • You
  • Way

• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • Revolution
  • Sign

• My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Disney
  • Grandfather
  • Union

• What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Spirit
  • Inherit
  • Dazzles

• I enjoy playing and singing as much today as I ever did. I don’t have to work, but I do it because it’s rewarding personally. I could live if I couldn’t do it anymore, but I truly enjoy it, and will do it for another couple years at least.

  

  Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult
  • Singing
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• I was always meant to be a mom. As soon as I had my kids, it just felt so natural.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Kids
  • Mom

• The glory of the king of all the kings.You with the golden power on your brows,You kings, I think you know not what you are.First you shall learn yourselves: for neither lightUnderstandeth itself, nor darkness light.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Power
  • Light
  • King

• Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting a final stab in each of their skulls.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Voice
  • Arabic
  • Heartfelt

• 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.

  

  Bruce Beresford