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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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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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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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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In the 1960s, my father chose to introduce Italian-style clothing into a world that was filled with boxy Brooks Brothers suits. So if you were dressing in his clothes in New York or California, you were breaking a rule. And my mother, Risha, who is still living, has always been an activist. I don't think my mom has met a cause she doesn't like.
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Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
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My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.
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When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
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It was entirely from worldly vanity that you destined him for the Church: with a family of three sons and four daughters, you were not warranted in devoting money to an expensive education which has succeeded in nothing but in giving him extravagant idle habits. You are now reaping the consequences.’
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There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
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I love doing voiceover work.
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My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
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An unread book does nobody any good.
