Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
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When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.
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Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
