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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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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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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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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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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Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?
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Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
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There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
