Brendan Fletcher Quotes

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

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• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Light
  • Show
  • Darkness

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • People
  • Know
  • Day

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Me

• Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Nobody
  • Misfortune

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Image
  • Super

• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Why
  • Food
  • Change

• I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Work
  • Different
  • City

• God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Work
  • God

• Why not take a science fiction comic and put the characters in a small town to gain their particular perspective? A lot of that comes from me growing up in a small town on a farm, so that's what I know and what I'm comfortable with. My drawing style is also very sparse and minimalist, so a rural setting complements that.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Up
  • Why
  • Science

• One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.

  

  David Trubridge
  • Country
  • Moving
  • Design

• I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

  

  Brendan Fletcher
  • Country
  • Why