Brandon Mull Quotes
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
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Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.
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I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.
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If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.
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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
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The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
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Audiences deserve better.
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Always beware an unsigned architectural design.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.
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...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?
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Telling that guy a secret is like writing it across the sky.
