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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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.
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My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
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Karrin Murphy: I'm pretty sure there's no Nobel prize for pornography.
