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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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 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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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.
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I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
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Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did, and real life was separate. And I'm starting to realize that the things that I do, making music and art and photography and all that, it's not just something that I do. It's who I am. So I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. It's like that curse that you live with, this thing that you love but you also hate it at the same time. It brings you a lot of joy but also a lot of heartbreak.
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
