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• THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Jon Krakauer

  Military, War, Team

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 09, 2012

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• What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.

  Cecily Strong

  Nbc

  "Transcript for Cecily Strong Remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner". abcnews.go.com. April 26, 2015.

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• I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

  David Johansen

  Band, Shows, Stills

  "The Survivors: David Johansen". Interview with Mike Flaherty, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to the life. Azzarellos grasp of pacing, character and situation resonates through every scene with a black crystal clarity thats short of masterful, while Corben contributes what is, perhaps, one of the most darkly expressive pieces in a long, already-legendary career.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Hard Times, Careers

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• I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parenting, Talking

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• I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!

  Hilton Als

  Girl, Philosophy, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

  Brian Aldiss

  Creativity, Men, Years

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• What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a brain.' If you did, you'd have opened the door for me.' I shot him a dark look and let him shove against the door a moment longer before I ducked under his arms to push it open. 'What is it really?' Schoolbooks. We're going to educate you properly, so you don't grow up to be an idiot.; I remembered by intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, School, Dark

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• The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

  David Bowie

  Albums, Characterization, Adopted

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  What If, Stronger, Awful

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• That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

  Diana Gabaldon

  Teenage, Father, Calling

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• Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan." Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Eye, Hey

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.66, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

  Roald Dahl

  Kindness, Simple, Thinking

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• If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

  Paul McCartney

  Fifth, Ifs

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• Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

  Larry Heinemann

  Book, Grace, Soldier

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• So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

  Diana Gabaldon

  Thinking, Pay, Remember

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• Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

  Shane Warne

  Player, Doubt, Daylight

  "Tendulkar is way ahead: Warne". www.thehindu.com. October 5, 2004.

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• I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Support, Assistants, England

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• See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.

  Megan McCafferty

  Cute, Ideas, Rivers

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.434, Crown

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• It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.

  Scott Heim

  Angel, Light, Wounds And Scars

  Scott Heim (1995). “Mysterious skin: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature.

  Kevin Myers

  Thinking, Skills, Two

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• The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

  John Cleese

  Love Life, Holy Grail, Sides

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

  Danny Boyle

  Guy, Arrogant

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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• We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.

  Bob Hawke

  Vancouver, Would Be, Canada

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Hi my name is Brian, but uh, you can call me 'B-Rok'. Cuz, I be rockin' your house!

  Brian Littrell

  Names, House, Cuz

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