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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I should brush my hair more.
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Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
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Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.
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An unread book does nobody any good.
