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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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.
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I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.
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The many fail: the one succeeds.
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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.
