Brandon Mull Quotes
Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
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If you don't know what a cat is, it's sort of like a stuffed animal... but with a working asshole. I'll admit that when I went to the pound, I was actually shopping for a never ending box of shit, um, and the cat just came with it. 20
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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)
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In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
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I became a human placebo.
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Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
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Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.
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The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
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Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?
