Bruce Beresford Quotes
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
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In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
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Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
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In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
