Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

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• I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Discipline
  • Healthy
  • Clothes

• I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Job
  • Day

• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dream

• I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
  • Past
  • Way

• My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Control

• I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interviews

• I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Up
  • Start
  • Cutting

• If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Happier
  • Grumpier

• I've never really done any interviews as myself.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Never

• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • You
  • Friend
  • Same

• Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Business
  • Amazing

• Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Why
  • Service

• Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Success

• The poet who writes 'free' verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Free
  • Cooking
  • Dirty

• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Friend

• There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.

  

  Mary Steenburgen

• For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work

• These are just stories, you know. They are part of what we are, but they are not the real thing. All this year I’ve been thinking, What would White Raven do? And today, every time I thought it, I just didn’t care what White Raven would do. So today I’ve just done what I would do. I’ve just done what I think is right. I’m not going to stop making up stories. But I’m thinking now that they aren’t just for pretending to be someone else, someone more exciting, someone braver than you really are. They are not always jut a maze to get lost in so you can run away from life. They can just as well be maps to help you navigate.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Pretending

• It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Together
  • Stop

• When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler