Brandon Sanderson Quotes
That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
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I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
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No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again
