Blake Butler Quotes
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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Fandom is amazing.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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Don't take this the wrong way but I care more and I'm a better online friend than you. I also spend way to much time online.
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Confidence is the greatest friend.
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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
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The ends justifies the means.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."
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I taught them how precisely to explode and still exist.
