Brandon Mull Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
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I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.
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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you're not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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An unread book does nobody any good.
