Bruce Bickford Quotes
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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My life is not perfect.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
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He's always been tough on me, but I've had to figure out when he's being a coach and when he's being a dad. Once I figured that out, it was much easier. It's definitely tough, something that took years to figure out. Just knowing he was looking for what's best for me, not just yelling at me as a parent. It took maturity.
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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.
