Jim Butcher Quotes

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

Jim Butcher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1971

Topics

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Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.

Jimmy Chin

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If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else?... We're all consumers... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

Stan Freberg

GreatMyselfBestI AmPeopleRest

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Simone Weil

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My heart's toward youth ministry, but I don't know. I never would have thought I would have written a book. And God kind of directed that. So we'll see what the next is.

Tony Dungy

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I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

Ronald Perelman

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I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

Jason Momoa

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'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Jason Reitman

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My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

Doug E. Fresh

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Fashion is not superficial; it is a dynamic tool to transform oneself, and it can be used to command the attention of those around you.

Christian Siriano

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I wish I'd had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while listening to my Sarah McLachlan Pandora station.

Chloe Benjamin

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Bodhidharma

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus

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