Jez Butterworth Quotes
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.
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So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.
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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
