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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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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If the Russians still adhered to the Greek Orthodox religion, if they had instituted parliamentary government, and if they had a completely free press which daily vituperated us, then - provided they still had armed forces as powerful as they have now - we should still hate them if they gave us ground for thinking them hostile.
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on having a gay child And the Three Wise Drag Queens would come, bearing gifts of 1000-thread-count sheets, hair products by Frédéric Fekkai, and a copy of the Immaculate Collection.
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.
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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.
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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
