Dexter Fletcher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Determination #Believe #Hard Work
I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Beautiful #Squares #Wandering Around
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Children #Responsibility #Adults
I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Thinking #Progress #Trying
I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#School #Theatre #Bread
My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Teacher #Guy #Parent
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Character #Logical #Backgrounds
You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Use #Fronts

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.
We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.
But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Labor is the true standard of value.

Dexter Fletcher famous quotes

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