Win Butler Quotes
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
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The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.
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The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.