Brendan Fletcher Quotes
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.
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One of the first places I was ever recognized after 'The Office' came out was at Target in Los Angeles. Someone came up to me, and she said, 'Are you Phyllis from 'The Office?'' We were in different aisles, but she had recognized my voice.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
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I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.
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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
