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 don't tweet or do any other social media, so I don't know what's being said out there.
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I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
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My parents telling me that if there is a story you feel compelled to share, then you are responsible for doing that. You can't ask someone else to take on that story - or you can, but you have to deal with whatever the fallout is. If the story doesn't end up being told the way you originally heard it or that you feel it needs to be expressed, that's on you.
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A lot of my struggles with nutrition date back to my swimming days. I was a super-skinny young girl who would go through hours of intense training. Afterward, I'd be famished, but I had a two-hour trip home before dinner. When I did my hardest workouts, I often ate less; I was too tired to think about food.
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DAYS ARE WEEKS AND WEEKS ARE DAYS INSIDE YOU.
