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.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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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.
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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.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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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.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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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.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
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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.
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.
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I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.
