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.
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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.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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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.
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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.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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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.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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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.
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
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The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
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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.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer was a challenge in a lot of ways. It all shaped what the band went on to become through the '90s. After we made 'Goo,' we went out and toured with Neil Young in ice hockey arenas for three months, and that was the same kind of thing.
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Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
