Bruce Oldfield Quotes
I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.
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When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'
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Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
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I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.
