Blake Butler Quotes
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.
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One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.
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When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
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Those are the kind of guys you build your program around. He's a warrior.
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I think it’s really important that artists are still able to release records and release albums, or otherwise, it feels like we’re all going to be working to write singles or release songs that are going to fit a formula.
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If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.
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Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.
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I write about true-life type things.
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I write what I write.
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I write my music.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.
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I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, we’re not the best communicators when it comes to talking to the women in our lives. I know I’m not – but I’m much better when I have a pen and paper in my hand.
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I write to breathe life back into memory.
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I write what I see; I paint what I am.
Etel Adnan -
I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.
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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
