Jim Butcher Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that we cannot just set the tax policy and presume that it does not require continual review and adjustment.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.
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People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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Karrin Murphy: I'm pretty sure there's no Nobel prize for pornography.
