Jim Butcher Quotes
Bridges are a troll's specialty. Whether because of some magic or just because of aptitude, you never get across the bridge without facing the troll. That's life, I guess.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Louise Wilson told me she wanted to see more of the 1997 show. And so I needed to reissue that.
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I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.
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Life's a bitch and then your feet wear down.
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Bridges are a troll's specialty. Whether because of some magic or just because of aptitude, you never get across the bridge without facing the troll. That's life, I guess.
