Bruce Beresford Quotes
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
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I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.
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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
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All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying 'Halt!'
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Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
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Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
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It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
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I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
