Brandon Thomas Quotes
If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I never thought it was fair that women couldn't travel freely because it was dangerous. I'd stay by myself on the North Carolina coast for a couple of weeks, with my dog and my gun, and my mom would be terrified. I told her, if I stay home, a lamp could fall on my head. You can't spend your whole life inside because you're scared.
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I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern of defining, declaring, struggling for, fighting for what we think of and treasure as the self. The inviolate self. This begins with our families: your parents are part of your cultural landscape, and they are also shaped by larger forces than them.
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Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.
