Jez Butterworth Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.
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I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.
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My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.
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I grew up in a household that was very left wing.
