"I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can."

-- Jim Butcher

#Soldier Quotes #Trying Quotes #Looks Quotes

“It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.”
“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”

Source : "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.
“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.”
“You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.”

Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.
“Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.”
“I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.”

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