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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If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no real power. The world respects creation; people will get out of your way. - Candice Carpenter Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.
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I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
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I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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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.
