Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
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I don't care who you are, life has challenges.
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Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
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If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
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I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.
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I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to gossip. And you don't have to explain why you're in such a bad mood when your work isn't going well.
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You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.
