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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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great content on this thing, that big-screen TV is not a huge value to you, even though it has the best picture on the planet.
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There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
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I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.
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A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.
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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.
