Win Butler Quotes
A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
Quotes to Explore
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
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When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, 'You've just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.'
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A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
