Bruce Beresford Quotes
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
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In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit there in a state of suspended animation for up to 50 years in the life of each woman.
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I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
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There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
