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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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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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'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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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 have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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I had a tightly knit group of female friends in elementary school - we called ourselves the Sensational Six.
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Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
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In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
