When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.


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BRANDON SANDERSON
Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.
BRANDON SANDERSON
You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Bree...
BRANDON SANDERSON
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upo...
BRANDON SANDERSON
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.
BRANDON SANDERSON
Kelsier exhaled in exasperation. “Elend Venture? You risked your life—risked the plan, and our l...
BRANDON SANDERSON
... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuou...
BRANDON SANDERSON
I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics...
BRANDON SANDERSON
...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to le...
BRANDON SANDERSON
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accompli...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She o...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...
BRANDON SANDERSON
I've done commercial work for Amtrak. However, that was branded as Stanton. I stipulated at the ...
BRANDON STANTON
I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very...
BRANDON LEE
Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables u...
BRANDON WEBB
I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the en...
BRANDON STANTON
Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure...
BRANDON JENNER
In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a s...
BRANDON STANTON
Aim higher. Stay focused.
BRANDON ADAMS
I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the hea...
BRANDON BOYD
I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an ...
BRANDON STANTON
Megan looked at me and blushed. A blush looked really good on her. Of course, so would soup, mud, or...
BRANDON SANDERSON
I couldn’t help grinning at the sight of her. Megan, in turn, raised a nine-millimeter square at m...
BRANDON SANDERSON
I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You’re l...
BRANDON SANDERSON
What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked.
“I’d thin...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he rai...
BRANDON SANDERSON
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanish...
BRANDON SANDERSON
When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come fr...
BRANDON STANTON
Don’t do anything stupid."
"Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on st...
BRANDON SANDERSON
The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats ...
BRANDON WEBB
I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile a...
BRANDON BOYD
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to th...
BRANDON BOYD
Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excite...
BRANDON BOYD
I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character matur...
BRANDON ROUTH
I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think ...
BRANDON STANTON
Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to produci...
BRANDON WEBB
The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.
BRANDON WEBB
I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really ha...
BRANDON STANTON
Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk.
BRANDON SANDERSON
Excruciating agony makes me cranky.
BRANDON MULL
I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't thi...
BRANDON SANDERSON
He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would peo...
BRANDON SANDERSON
There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spir...
BRANDON BOYD
Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] Whit...
BRANDON SANDERSON
A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.
BRANDON JONES
Same old, same old. Nothing special, but he's absolutely ready.
BRANDON MACNAUGHT
Next weekend is the weekend we have to wrestle perfectly. We didn't wrestle perfectly this weekend, ...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT
It's one of those things where you don't worry about individual wins and losses, you worry about the...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT
If it isn't broke, don't fix it. You want to prepare the same. ... I haven't seen any added pressure...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT