Brad Anderson Quotes

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• I think it's cool people love to hate me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Hate
  • Cool

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Study

• Working gets in the way of living.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Way
  • Working
  • Living

• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Strong
  • Afraid
  • Pressure

• I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Think
  • Daughter
  • Wants

• Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Down
  • Sides

• Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Force
  • Stupidity
  • Earthquake

• We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Together
  • Think

• While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Real
  • Business
  • Justice

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

  

  Iman
  • Believe
  • Vanity
  • Genes

• We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Business
  • Iron
  • Steel

• Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Future
  • Community

• To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Time
  • Lies
  • Look

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.

  

  Rick Scott
  • Running
  • Principles

• I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

  

  Brad Anderson