Jim Butcher Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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America is a meritocracy.
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For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.
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The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
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Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
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When we make the effort for each other, it makes the difference.
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What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.
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Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.
