Jez Butterworth Quotes
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.
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I don't like controversy.
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Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.
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'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.
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I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
