Bruce Beresford Quotes
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.
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We always did everything ourselves.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.
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To understand the economy then is to comprehend how it is driven by the animal spirits. Just as Adam Smith’s invisible hand is the keynote of classical economics, Keynes’ animal spirits are the keynote to a different view of the economy - a view that explains the underlying instabilities of capitalism.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
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For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
