Jim Butcher Quotes
Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe': Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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I don't like controversy.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
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With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
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In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.
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I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
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Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe': Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
