Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes

While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
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  • Health
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• I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
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• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
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• When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Games
  • Nobody

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
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• The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
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• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

• So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Music
  • Film
  • Something

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Done
  • Job
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• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Passion
  • Youth

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Feel
  • Looking
  • France

• The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
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• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
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• Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

  

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• Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • City

• I think they'd both lose miserably.

  

  Pervez Musharraf

• Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

  

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  • People
  • Long
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• In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Place
  • Diary
  • Draft

• While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Future
  • Broken
  • Spanish