Billy Butler Quotes
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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I have a hyper personality.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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Aillas groaned. 'Destiny could never be so unkind.'Suldrun said in a soft voice: 'Destiny doesn’t really care.'
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The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.
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How my soul hates This language, Which makes life itself a lie,Flattering dust with eternity.
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All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class, and if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure...
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It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate... I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
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I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.
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In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.
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My conscience is clear.
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I'm a redneck.
