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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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
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I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.
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Talking to Petrus is like punching a bag of sand. 'Are you giving him up?' 'Yes, I am giving him up.'
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He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.
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The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.
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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.
