Brad Anderson Quotes
If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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If you're making a smaller movie, you're almost obligated to do something unexpected and surprising.
