Brad Anderson Quotes
I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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For many people the war begins at home: Each year about three million children in the United States are reported as victims of child abuse and neglect. One million of these cases are serious and credible enough to force local child protective services or the courts to take action.12 In other words, for every soldier who serves in a war zone abroad, there are ten children who are endangered in their own homes. This is particularly tragic, since it is very difficult for growing children to recover when the source of terror and pain is not enemy combatants but their own caretakers.
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
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I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis.
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Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
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I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.
