Jez Butterworth Quotes
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
Jez Butterworth
Quotes to Explore
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos
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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.
Karen Kingsbury
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
Radhanath Swami
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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.
Zac Brown Band
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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.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
Tavi Gevinson
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
Vagit Alekperov
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What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
Fergus Henderson
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A lot of these types of films - the vigilante or revenge drama - were so popular in the '70s because there was a feeling in the culture of loss of control.
James Wan
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I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.
Kenny Rogers
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I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph.D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
Jez Butterworth