Bruce Oldfield Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
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By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.
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I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
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Stay small and control it yourself.
