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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.
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The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.
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Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
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DAYS ARE WEEKS AND WEEKS ARE DAYS INSIDE YOU.