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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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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On the fifth day following the murder of the ship's officers, land was sighted by the lookout. Whether island or mainland, Black Michael did not know, but he announced to Clayton that if investigation showed that the place was habitable he and Lady Greystoke were to be put ashore with their belongings.
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Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.
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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.
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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
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I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.
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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.
