Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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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.
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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.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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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.
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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.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
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My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
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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.
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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.
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I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.
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The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.
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I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.
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The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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There's always another secret.
