Jim Butcher Quotes

Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

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• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

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• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

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• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

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• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  

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• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

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• Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

  

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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

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• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

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• I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

  

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• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

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• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

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• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

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• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

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• I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

  

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• Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.

  

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• I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

  

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• Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity- the illusion that passage of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap which is closing around you.

  

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• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

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• Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

  

  Jim Butcher
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  • Feeling