Jez Butterworth Quotes
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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 love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
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Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.
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I'll try to say a little more: Love went on and on Until it reached an open door - Then Love Itself Love Itself was gone.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
