Anthony Fantano Quotes

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.

At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.

I've gone through some dark times, and at those times, my tattoos have helped and guided me through.

Whether I'm trying to or not, I have this inherent feeling that music is uplifting; it makes you feel victorious, and that makes you feel like you can take on the world.

I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.

I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense of hope. Because I don't think I've ever read a YA book that feels completely hopeless at the end.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it.

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

The most powerful weapon is hope.

I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.

Man is not made for defeat.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.