Jez Butterworth Quotes
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I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
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Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.
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The paranormal bad boy is usually a fiercely loyal partner for the heroine. Once his sights are set on her, he doesn't notice other women, and he's utterly unconcerned with what anyone else thinks of his choice.
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We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.
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I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
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I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
