"I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers."

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Jim Butcher

#People Quotes #Answers Quotes #Pertinent Quotes

“If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.”
“I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.”
“Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.”
“I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.”
“You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.”
“Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.”

Source : Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.”
“Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.”

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