Austin Butler Quotes
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
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I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
