"Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting."

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Source : "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.

Jez Butterworth

#Sitting Quotes #Should Quotes #Pubs Quotes

“The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.”
“Be magnificent. Lifeâ€™s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.”
“Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.”
“What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.”
“Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.”
“Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “CHILDREN’S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection: 11 Novels & 120+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Fables & Poems for Children (Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Series & The Arabian Nights): New Chronicles of Rebecca, A Summer in a Cañon, Polly Oliver's Problem, The Birds' Christmas Carol, The Romance of a Christmas Card, Timothy's Quest, The Fairy Ring, Golden Numbers and many more”, p.217, e-artnow
“Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.”

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