Jim Butcher Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.
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According to their nature, there are both people who have quick intelligence, and those who must withdraw and take time to think things over.
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Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
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If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?
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We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.
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Karrin Murphy: Yes, Your honor, your victim was killed by a werewolf.
