Top 51 Brandis Quotes
#1. My first celebrity crush was Jonathan Brandis. I even got to talk to him on the phone. I wrote a fan letter, and he answered. Talk about a surreal experience.
Jennifer Armentrout
#2. Showing the skills more of a high-school debater than a barrister, Brandis blustered in the Senate that 'people do have a right to be bigots'.
Peter Van Onselen
#3. I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.
Jonathan Brandis
#4. I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
Jonathan Brandis
#5. Kanye West is what happens when you tell average children they're special. Tap,
S. Elliot Brandis
#6. The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.
George Brandis
#7. Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.
Jonathan Brandis
#8. I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.
George Brandis
#9. My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.
Jonathan Brandis
#10. And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
Jonathan Brandis
#12. I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.
Jonathan Brandis
#13. I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.
George Brandis
#14. I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.
Jonathan Brandis
#16. I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.
Jonathan Brandis
#17. We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.
George Brandis
#18. Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.
Jonathan Brandis
#19. One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
Jonathan Brandis
#20. I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.
George Brandis
#21. There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.
George Brandis
#22. I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!
Jonathan Brandis
#23. The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love with his prose style and I decided that I wanted to read the whole Dickens verve during the course of my life.
George Brandis
#24. I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.
George Brandis
#25. When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!
Jonathan Brandis
#26. However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!
Jonathan Brandis
#27. I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.
Jonathan Brandis
#28. I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that the parliament will then move very swiftly to implement the will of the people.
George Brandis
#29. I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.
George Brandis
#31. As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.
George Brandis
#32. The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.
George Brandis
#33. My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
Jonathan Brandis
#34. It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.
Jonathan Brandis
#35. I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.
George Brandis
#36. I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.
Jonathan Brandis
#37. I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.
Jonathan Brandis
#38. I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.
Jonathan Brandis
#39. The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.
George Brandis
#40. My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.
Jonathan Brandis
#41. Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.
Jonathan Brandis
#42. If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future.
George Brandis
#43. You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.
George Brandis
#44. Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.
George Brandis
#45. I don't like being told someone's interpretation of something that I do.
Jonathan Brandis
#46. I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.
George Brandis
#47. The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.
George Brandis
#48. I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.
George Brandis
#49. We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
George Brandis
#51. The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians can have their say, and that is what Australians want.
George Brandis
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