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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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 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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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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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
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Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.
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I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
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Email servers learned to laugh.
