Jez Butterworth Quotes
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.Jez Butterworth
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.
Feist -
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.
Damian Woetzel -
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart -
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
Walter Jon Williams -
For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
Teddy Sears -
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.
Utada Hikaru
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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.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
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.
Sam Shepard -
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
Zora Neale Hurston -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
Marat Safin -
I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
Tao Lin
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan -
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.
Oscar Pistorius -
I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
Madison Davenport -
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Sallust -
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.
Malik Bendjelloul -
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
E. L. Doctorow
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I have a special interest in children who have lost a parent or loved one in the line of duty as they served their country as a police officer, firefighter, federal agent or member of the military, but children all over the word need help and an opportunity to flourish.
Larry Wilcox -
I love Pilates - I am a really big believer in it as a practise; I think it's fab.
Louise Nurding -
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
Mary Quant -
To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.
Kelela Mizanekristos -
Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
George Bernard Shaw -
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Jez Butterworth