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I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Argument Art Art Form Beauty Brutal Created Defend Disturbing Endings Ever Form Happy How Indeed Like Matter Most Ritual Tragedies Witnessed

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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Able About Complexity Contradictions Cuba Different Fascinating Figures Found Fulfilling Heroic Hugely Just Kind Learning Many Met Narrative Offer Official People Really Richness Side Some Them Unique Who

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I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Anything Anything Else Beauty Boxing Else How Immediacy Just Mystery People Reveals Think Unlike I Think

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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Along America Boxer Boxers Carried Century Depression Event Every Going Just Major Narrative Represent Seemed Slavery States Through United United States Vietnam Vietnam War War Way Who You 20Th Century

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My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Back Behind Certainly Cuban Culture Desperately Economic Had Homesick Hungary Left Life Mother Nostalgic Opportunity Refugee She States United United States Want

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Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: After Always American Athletes Castro Cuban Defeated Defeating Down His Island Leave Ring States Sums Turning United United States Using Way Were

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We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Away Like Long Long Way Pep Punch Round Someone Throwing Way Willie Winning Without

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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Asked Bench Boxing Champion Coach Cuban Distinct Fighting First He Made Me Olympic Rest Sit Smiled Style Walk Watch Women World

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I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Also Always Before City Could Dreams Exhausting Feels First Fulfills Havana Like Me Never Nightmare Nobody Offered Promise Quite Sleeping Threatening Trip Warned World You

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Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: About Anyone Anything Every How Interview Learn Maybe Much Real Really Subject You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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