Curt Butler:
CLASS OF 1987
Brentwood High SchoolClass of 1987
Brentwood, TN
Western Kentucky UniversityClass of 1991
Bowling green, KY
Battle Ground AcademyClass of 1990
Franklin, TN
Overton High SchoolClass of 1989
Nashville, TN
Curt's Story
Curt is from Nashville, Tennessee. He is married with Jill Fisher Butler. His schools include Brentwood High School. He later attended Western Kentucky University (Theatre). He works(ed) at Mt. Pleasant Middle School for Visual and Performing Arts, Gaylord Entertainment, Mt. Pleasant Middle School of the Visual and Performing Arts.
Curt's interests include Theological Discourse, Witty Conversation, Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball, Atlanta Braves, Nashville Predators Hockey Team. Music he likes includes The Accomplices Band, Luscious Jackson, Kasey Chambers. Movies he likes include Bull Durham, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The English Patient. TV shows he likes include Band of Brothers, Sports Night, Mad About You.
One of Curt's favorite quotes is:"Rosencrantz: What are you playing at?
Guildenstern: Words. Words. They're all we have to go on.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. -Oscar Wilde
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.-Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. -John Wooden
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.-John Keats
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside, darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me -Bruce Springsteen
Let go of your fear, let's grow old together
Find a place along the way
Let's reel through the years
Each makes the other better. -Better Than Ezra
I never did it
No I won't admit it
Why should I lie for you anymore
You never loved me
You pushed and you shoved me
I see the woman I never saw
I saw you laugh when the knife was twisted
It still hurts but the pain has shifted
I'm looking back at the time that drifted by
But I won't cry for the wasted years
'Cos you ain't worth the salt in my tears -Martin Briley
Love doesn't come with a contract
You give me this I gave you that
It's scary business
Your heart and soul is on the line
Baby why else would I be standing round here so tongue tied
If I knew what I was doing
I'd be doing it right now
I would be the best damn poet
Silver words out of my mouth
Well my words might not be magic
But they cut straight to the truth
So if you need a lover and a friend
Baby I'm in I'm in baby I'm in I'm in
Baby come on in the water's fine
I'll be right here
You take your time
Just let me hold you
And we'll both take that leep of faith
It's like I told you there's no guarantee when you feel this way
Baby come h...Expand for more
ere next to me
I'll show you how good it can be
I'll breathe each breath you breathe
I can pour out everything I am -Radney Foster
And if you find a love thats tender, if you find someone whos true....thank the Lord...Hes been doubly good to you- Amy Grant
If you want to be made free of a certain circle for some wholesome reasonâif, say, you want to join a musical society because you really like musicâthen there is a possibility of satisfaction. You may find yourself playing in a quartet and you may enjoy it. But if all you want is to be in the know, your pleasure will be short lived. The circle cannot have from within the charm it had from outside. By the very act of admitting you it has lost its magic.Once the first novelty is worn off, the members of this circle will be no more interesting than your old friends. Why should they be? You were not looking for virtue or kindness or loyalty or humour or learning or wit or any of the things that can really be enjoyed. You merely wanted to be âin.â And that is a pleasure that cannot last. As soon as your new associates have been staled to you by custom, you will be looking for another Ring. The rainbowâs end will still be ahead of you. The old ring will now be only the drab background for your endeavor to enter the new one.
And you will always find them hard to enter, for a reason you very well know. You yourself, once you are in, want to make it hard for the next entrant, just as those who are already in made it hard for you. Naturally. In any wholesome group of people which holds together for a good purpose, the exclusions are in a sense accidental. Three or four people who are together for the sake of some piece of work exclude others because there is work only for so many or because the others canât in fact do it. Your little musical group limits its numbers because the rooms they meet in are only so big. But your genuine Inner Ring exists for exclusion. Thereâd be no fun if there were no outsiders. The invisible line would have no meaning unless most people were on the wrong side of it. Exclusion is no accident; it is the essence.
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsmen will know it. This group of craftsmen will by no means coincide with the Inner Ring or the Important People or the People in the Know. It will not shape that professional policy or work up that professional influence which fights for the profession as a whole against the public: nor will it lead to those periodic scandals and crises which the Inner Ring produces. But it will do those things which that profession exists to do and will in the long run be responsible for all the respect which that profession in fact enjoys and which the speeches and advertisements cannot maintain.
And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the centre of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that the secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it.
-C.S. Lewis".
More about Curt:"I have lived many places and traveled many roads. I have done much that I wished and much I wished I had not. The Lord has his reasons for the trials, they make the joys worth it. I have found my joy and her name is Jill.".
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