Brandon Mull Quotes
My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.
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The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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... Love is heaven and claims its own.
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Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
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Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
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I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
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Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.
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Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
