Brandon Mull Quotes
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
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It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.
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If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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I believe that every person's individual testimony of Jesus as the Christ comes as a spiritual gift. No one can successfully dispute or challenge it because it is so personal a gift to the one to whom it has been given.
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What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.
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I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.
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Wow! I can hardly believe I finished Beyonders.
