Bruce Beresford Quotes
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.Bruce Beresford
Quotes to Explore
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
Sam Smith -
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand -
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie -
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett -
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Vic Snyder -
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann -
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
Oscar Niemeyer -
They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
Ed Asner -
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
Adam Pascal
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman -
My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
Wayne Dyer -
For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
Eddie Huang -
On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
Nacho Figueras -
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak
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When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.
Marsha Blackburn -
I love that there are others interacting with me.
Esther Hicks -
I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
Ian Caldwell -
Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.
Megan Nicole -
In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
Billy Joel -
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
Bruce Beresford