Bruce Greenwood Quotes
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
Quotes to Explore
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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The Abolitionists were right in their attitude to the Church. Slavery and the Church were side by side: the Church was at peace with slavery: men were sold to build churches, women sold to pay missionaries, and children sold to buy Bibles. We did right to oppose it.
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We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
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There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.
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Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
