Bruce Beresford Quotes

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

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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

• To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rocky

• 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

• My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• 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

• It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

  

  Nitin Sawhney
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Language

• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Guitar
  • Superstar
  • Skater

• America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • God
  • Country
  • Why

• Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

  

  John James Audubon
  • School

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

  

  Bruce Beresford