Jim Butcher Quotes
Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem?
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
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Gary Johnson's refusal or inability to name a single foreign leader, current or former, whom he admired, showed that he is not ready for the presidency.
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There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.
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If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
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Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem?
