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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The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.
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It takes courage to say, “I need help” and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.
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I am really blessed and very grateful for it.
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
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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!
