Brad Anderson Quotes

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Best
  • Period

• People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Money
  • Small

• If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Help
  • Play
  • Sometimes

• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Person
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• I just believe what I believe.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Team
  • Like
  • Feel

• The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Small

• Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• And the sad act like lepersThey stick to the shadowsThey long to ring bells of warningTo tell of their comingSo that the pure can shut their doors.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Long
  • Sad

• Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Daughter

• Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Personality
  • Famous
  • Partner

• I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Men
  • Trying

• I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn
  • Trying

• I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Knowing
  • Believing
  • Cynic

• When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Kids

• Don't make it about your gender or about your looks, make it solely about the music.

  

  Nora En Pure
  • Music
  • Looks
  • Gender

• If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

  

  Brad Anderson