Jim Butcher Quotes
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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I was unpopular my whole life.
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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.
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When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
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It was a fear we had when we started 'Legion,' that there were too many comic-book series out there, and how do you stand out. Our mandate always is to make something different in feel and tone. You try to avoid someone thinking, 'Gee, I've seen this before.'
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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
