Bruce Oldfield Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.
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People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.
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I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
