Bruce Feirstein Quotes
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.
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I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.
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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.
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It's an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
