Katy Butler Quotes

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

Katy Butler

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• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Longevity

• A bowler can make or break a chap.

  

  John Newton
  • Break
  • Bowler
  • Chap

• In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Long
  • Certain
  • Break

• The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Problem
  • Fashion
  • Longevity

• If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Heart
  • Break
  • Battering

• Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Free

• 99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Break
  • Wants
  • Less

• Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Universe
  • Break
  • Adversity

• It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Death
  • Economy
  • Break

• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Poetry

• Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Lies
  • Blood
  • Break

• You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Red
  • Break
  • Fingers

• Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

  

  Marlon James
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Success

• If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Want

• There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Black
  • Focus

• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his--" Yes, he sounds like a real charmer," said Hermione, while Harry roared with laughter. Never married, for some reason," said Ron.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special relationship with the fans.

  

  Walt Frazier
  • Book
  • Relationship
  • Special

• I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Break
  • Longevity
  • Taboo