Chuck Brodsky Quotes
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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How can Israel say that everyone is equal before the law - that you're equal before the law - when the law defines Judaism as the cultural, national and legislative basis for the state?
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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re: Abraham Lincoln. 'For whatever reason, and I can't explain why - that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn't know why; I was quite alarmed by it...'
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Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.' Well, this is the time for bold measures.
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I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
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What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
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We are each others angels, we meet when it is time
