Katy Butler Quotes
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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When you do it yourself, you feel better.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.
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To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
