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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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
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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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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
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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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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.
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I make my home in Tulsa.
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Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming.
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Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it.
