Bruce Beresford Quotes
At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.
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I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.
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I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
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I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
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White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.
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What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear.
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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
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And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces until we get kind of sick of it and then writing pieces that get more sprawling and experimental and explore in different directions.
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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
