Jim Butcher Quotes
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
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Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
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There are two words for everything.
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What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
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They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name Ai Weiwei can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?
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Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.
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Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it.
