Jim Butcher Quotes

Harry Dresden: Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Not Good Enough

• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Real
  • Love

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Future
  • Control

• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Walking
  • Creative
  • Process

• Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Past
  • Moving
  • Hurt

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Singing

• Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Want
  • Losing
  • Certainly

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Start

• There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.

  

  Blake Bailey
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Yourself

• It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.

  

  Alex Meraz
  • Travel

• At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Children
  • Home
  • Wife

• Harry Dresden: Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

  

  Jim Butcher
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