Brandon Mull Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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No matter how far those dreams have taken me, I have always remembered, I’m the daughter of a small-business owner and the granddaughter of a factory worker - and proud of both.
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In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.
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Love forbids you not to love.
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With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.
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Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
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It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.
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The society killed Kendra." ... Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.
