Jez Butterworth quotes
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“A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.”
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“Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.”
-- Jez ButterworthSource : "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.
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“I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.”
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“I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.”
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“I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.”
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“If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.”
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“A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.”
-- Jez ButterworthSource : "All or Nothing" by Emma Brockes, www.newyorker.com. November 10, 2014.
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Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.224, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.”
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“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
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“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”
Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press
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