Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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The world is always in movement.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list goes on - and are unsure of how individuals can affect real change. We don't know what effect we will have on the current political climate as we strive to effect change. All large historical decision draw from a sea of smaller decisions. One never knows what will make the difference in the long run.
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I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.
