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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Human beings will justify anything.
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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
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I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you.
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The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
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Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it.
