W. Bruce Cameron Quotes
During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can't always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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I love women, but I also respect them.
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It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.
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During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can't always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.
