Brandon Mull Quotes
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow -
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
Flavor Flav -
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
V. S. Naipaul -
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder -
It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
Patricia Marx -
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
T. J. Perkins -
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Beatrice Wood -
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
Patricia Briggs -
When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
Yara Shahidi -
We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
Viktor Orban -
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
Orison Swett Marden -
I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
Lana Turner -
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
Calvin Trillin -
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
Oprah Winfrey -
The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
Walter Cronkite
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If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
Sincerity is the way of heaven.
Confucius -
We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.
Barack Obama -
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
Adam Driver -
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
Brandon Mull