Jez Butterworth Quotes

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

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• If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Like

• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • You
  • Years
  • Yesterday

• You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dialect

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Year
  • Priority
  • Average

• It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Police

• Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Down

• Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Family
  • Power
  • Alone

• Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Many

• In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reality

• In my conception of it, the primary role of the Court is to decide cases. From the decision of cases, of course, some changes develop, but to try to create or substantially change civil or criminal procedure, for example, by judicial decision is the worst possible way to do it. The Supreme Court is simply not equipped to do that job properly.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Job
  • Decision

• Well maybe the princess shouldn't be a damsel and she could save herself.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • She
  • Princess

• It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Road

• I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn't.

  

  Bella Hadid
  • Good
  • Experience

• I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

  

  Bing Gordon
  • Learning

• “You’re all so quick to point out what you can’t do. The time has come to learn what you can.

  

  Steve Hockensmith
  • Learn
  • You Can
  • Point Out

• Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it's because the IRS budget has been cut, but I'm going to argue that it's because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences.

  

  Ander Crenshaw
  • May
  • Service

• Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Serious

• I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

  

  Jez Butterworth