Jez Butterworth Quotes
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.
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'We asked for them in February. It's June now; they must be coming.' 'They've been saying that about Christ for eighteen hundred years.'
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I am grateful for my family, friends, and all those who send constant love and support - you are my energy and my hope. You teach me, love me even when I'm wrong, and let me ride the challenges and come out whole.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
