Brandon Sanderson Quotes

There's always another secret.

Brandon Sanderson

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• A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Ballet
  • Dancer
  • Fosse

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Me
  • Film

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Editing

• I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Love
  • Open

• I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Work
  • Home
  • History

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Shadow
  • Stand
  • Wherever

• A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Movies

• I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Now
  • Going

• My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Best
  • Player
  • Coach

• Then in my heart a fear Cried out, 'A life - why, beautiful, why dead!' It was a mite that held itself most dear, So small I could have drowned it with a tear.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Free

• My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • She
  • Mother
  • Brother

• The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.

  

  Walter Kiechel
  • Important
  • Teaching
  • Academic

• I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Cats
  • Philadelphia

• I've played for a lot of tough crowds.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Play
  • Crowds

• I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, 'Far North,' and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Time
  • Partner

• There's always another secret.

  

  Brandon Sanderson