Bruce Beresford Quotes
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
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My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by livingonly my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.
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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
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TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.
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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
