Win Butler Quotes
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.
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It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
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The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers - keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
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I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
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I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.
