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'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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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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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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I do actually sing; I love to sing.
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I bought my first pair of pointy-toed Miu Miu shoes with a kitten heel from Barneys. They were $200, and it was a big deal. I wore them with a pleated black Benetton skirt and a white shirt. I looked like a waitress.
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Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it.
