Jez Butterworth Quotes

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

Jez Butterworth

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I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

John Carney

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Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

Andy Dunn

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I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

John Hughes

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A lot of artists feel it's not worth it to sign with a major label, because if you don't have a giganto hit, then you're not going to get a video made. You're not going to probably get much tour support. You're not going to get promotion. You're certainly not going to get a publicist who's going to pay much attention to you.

Ann Powers

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The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.

Amanda Seales

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No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

Trey Parker

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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Michel de Montaigne

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Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

Michel Faber

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Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

Michiko Kakutani

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Don Marquis

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Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

Dominic Thiem

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