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.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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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.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I just believe what I believe.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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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.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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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.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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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.
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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.
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I will not let anyone into America that I think poses a risk to us.
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If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
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Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'
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We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
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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.
