Blake Butler Quotes
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.
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I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.
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There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.
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The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.
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In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
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We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to make up for hundreds of years of persecution. We have to give hope to that poor runaway kid from San Antonio. They go to the bars because churches are hostile. They need hope! They need a piece of the pie!
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DAYS ARE WEEKS AND WEEKS ARE DAYS INSIDE YOU.
