Brandon Mull Quotes
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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You have to be a champion in all facets of life.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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I look completely different from how I did in 'Sinbad,' and it's nice to be myself.
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
