Brad Anderson Quotes

Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.

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• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Money
  • Man
  • Care

• 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Character
  • Want
  • Compliment

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Job

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Time
  • Things
  • Collector

• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Struggle
  • Courage

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Brainy

• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

  

  Bill Keller
  • People
  • Celebrity
  • Gossip

• Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.

  

  Brad Anderson
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