Eric Butterworth Quotes
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I try to do my best.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.
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If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.
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I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.
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Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
