Bruce Beresford Quotes
When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
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In response, Acheson wrote to 'tell a tale of large conceptions, great achievements...Its hero is the American people.'
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.
