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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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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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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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
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One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
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Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
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I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
