Michael Brandt famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.
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I think a reason why TV is exciting and getting so much better is because we [authors] get to play off of an actor's strengths and challenge them on their weaknesses. On a feature [film], you don't necessarily get to do that. You hope that they cast the right guy, who comes in and plays your part.
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In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.
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When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.
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TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.
-- Michael Brandt
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.
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I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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