Bruce Beresford Quotes

In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

Bruce Beresford

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Army

• When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Style

• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • She
  • Strong

• You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Environment
  • Calm
  • Village

• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Try
  • Down

• Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Effort
  • Language
  • Cinema

• Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Jazz

• I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Work
  • Why
  • Hate

• If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Help
  • Style
  • Choose

• More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Boy

• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Kind
  • Economy
  • Recovery

• Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.

  

  Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Powerful
  • Superiority
  • Evildoing

• I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Listening

• In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

  

  Bruce Beresford