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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
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If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.
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In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I'd like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I'm a little sleep-deprived, at the moment.
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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.
