Jez Butterworth Quotes

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Jez Butterworth

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ChangeLearningYouChooseAlive

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

John Carpenter

MusicMyselfYouEarlyPlayFirst

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

John Cho

WantActorActivist

There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

Robert Rinder

MoneyPeopleRichHideOutSystem

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

Steven Spielberg

LifeCrazyFeelSeeingWrongEdgy

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

Mick Mulvaney

MeWealthBadResourcesEconomic

We are vulnerable in the military and in our governments, but I think we're most vulnerable to cyber attacks commercially. This challenge is going to significantly increase. It's not going to go away.

Michael Mullen

ChallengeThinkGoCyberMilitary

One of the bad things about being a filmmaker, about being me, is I can hardly read a book anymore because every time I read something, I have a poaching mentality, like, 'Oh, can this be a movie?'

Derek Cianfrance

TimeMeBookBadI CanSomething

I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.

Chris Doubek

WordsMeActionThinkSomeoneSay

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

Chloe Kim

LifePeopleMy LifeAnxietySocial

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Cobi Jones

ChangeTimeKnowOldSameReflect

I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

Brian Grazer

RoseYouNewsLondonBecauseGet

I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.

Bonnie Hunt

DogHomeDayMeMomHusband

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