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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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, 'when I looked for light, then came darkness.' Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
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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.
