Bruce Beresford Quotes

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Bruce Beresford

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When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Viola Davis

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I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.

John Banville

MemoriesBrotherMePowerfulCopy

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

Meshell Ndegeocello

PeopleYouWantHardWhateverCall

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

Tracy Morgan

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People respond to any good you can do in music.

Ry Cooder

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People in the U.S. welcome us. We're solving their employment problems.

Lu Guanqiu

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What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

Dougray Scott

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I'm always just excited about every opportunity that comes my way.

Clinton Sparks

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When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.

Ara Parseghian

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'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.

Arfi Lamba

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People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

Ariel Pink

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