Brandon Mull Quotes
Life can be generous some days. But watch out—the price of living is pain. Same price as loving.
Quotes to Explore
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
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When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.
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Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.
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Life can be generous some days. But watch out—the price of living is pain. Same price as loving.
