Bruce Beresford Quotes

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

Bruce Beresford

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• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

  

  Ice T
  • Last
  • Tyranny
  • Bear

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Sound

• 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.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Law
  • Running
  • Doubt

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Parents
  • Couple
  • Years

• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Competitive
  • Compete

• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • May
  • You
  • Social

• I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Think
  • Education

• After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Future
  • Final

• We always did everything ourselves.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Did

• Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Look
  • Healthy
  • Height

• The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hate
  • Light

• Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...

  

  Jacob Bronowski

• I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • America
  • Violence
  • Problems

• Trayvon Martin was 17, Mike Brown was young, Tamir Rice was 12. And so young people are affected by it, possibly the most affected, because they're seeing themselves.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • People

• I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.

  

  Brian Austin Green

• The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Small
  • Serious

• For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

  

  Bruce Beresford