Mark Bradford Quotes
Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
Quotes to Explore
-
It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
-
I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
-
Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
-
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
-
We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
-
I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
-
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
-
I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
-
There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
-
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
-
I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
-
Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
-
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
-
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
-
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
-
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
-
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
-
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
-
Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it's not something that all readers have to care about.
-
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.
-
I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.
-
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
-
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
-
Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
