Paul Butcher Quotes
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
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No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
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In my quiet, I was working something out.
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.
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The cast of 'Zoey 101' are like a family to me.
