Bruce Beresford Quotes
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
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When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'
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The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.
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With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
