Bruce Oldfield Quotes
Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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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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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
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I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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When you have people who get angry quickly, you have to learn the rules to avoid being in that situation.
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I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.
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Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in Germany, and her training inspired her to think of anything that she liked as art.
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Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.
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Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
