Blake Butler Quotes
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I am a normal guy.
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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.
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I'd sing and shake my leg a bit, and it looked like I was doing something.
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I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'
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Email servers learned to laugh.
