Stephen Bruce Quotes
I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
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People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
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I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art
