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 fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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Uber has to design for the global platform.
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When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.
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As governor, I work in hand in hand with tribal leaders on everything from disaster response to economic development. Tribal governments are important partners to our state government, and I value the good relationships my administration has cultivated with them.
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I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
