Bernard Beckett Quotes
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
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We have failed to live up to the expectations of the public.
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When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.
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I am inspired just by the way a scene can be interpreted by the actors. It can make a huge difference on the type of music that you write. It's best for me if I don't work at all on a project until the movie is shot and I have some sort of edit in front of me.
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I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.
