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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As much as I love creating entertaining visuals, I love toying with the pace of a movie and trying to perfect that. It's imperative to the impact: faster cuts, cuts at the right moments that meld with the tenor of a scene. Creating and maintaining that feeling.
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We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. ‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.'
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
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I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.
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Life can be generous some days. But watch out—the price of living is pain. Same price as loving.
