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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Thank God for Botox.
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The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
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If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.
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I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That's invaluable. I can't believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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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.
