Jez Butterworth quote: "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."

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether i...
DAN FOGLER

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS

You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is rea...
NIKKI SIXX

I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you...
ELMORE LEONARD

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into ...
CARRIE FISHER

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much t...
THERESA MAY

I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that wel...
JACK WELCH

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES

You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hi...
LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a ...
JIM RASH

I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked...
EMMANUEL LUBEZKI

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to k...
GEORGE HARRISON

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, a...
CAMILA CABELLO

You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's ...
KEVIN WHATELY

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ...
SOPHIE THOMPSON

I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'I...
ERIK GRIFFIN

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know w...
JACOB DEGROM

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any ...
MELISSA ROSENBERG

There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your l...
BETTY WRIGHT

When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Inst...
BRIAN CHESKY

When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that&#...
FUTURE

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,'...
IYANLA VANZANT

I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Mi...
DULE HILL

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, th...
LAURA BAILEY

Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a cra...
SAM SHEPARD

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for...
JIM HARRISON

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character yo...
MARC DAVIS

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself...
DIANA KRALL

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot o...
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it...
TOMMY CHONG

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's somethin...
ROBERT PLANT

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked ...
FRANK MILLER

I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a...
KATE BOSWORTH

Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other peopl...
BENNY BLANCO

I feel like it's such an exercise in, like, several things to read a ton of 'Cosmo's or ...
MEGAN AMRAM

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
ERIC SAN

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off...
DAVID JOHANSEN

Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically...
MADISON SMARTT BELL

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH

I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected somethin...
DAMIAN LEWIS

When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes o...
DAVE GIBBONS

I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on...
CLAY MATTHEWS III

There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreati...
ETHAN COEN

When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of someth...
BILLIE WHITELAW

When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it t...
BILLY CASPER

When you pinch-hit, you know you're getting their best guys, and usually it's a reliever and...
BILLY BUTLER

Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, d...
KATE KLISE

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. ...
ISAAC HAYES

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - th...
RUTH OZEKI

If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, ...
MARTIN MILLAR

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able ...
ELISABETH SHUE

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words y...
LINCOLN CHILD

Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' a...
BECKY LYNCH

There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. ...
MATT BOMER

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And w...
JIMMY IOVINE

It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There...
DAVID LANGE

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the onl...
BETTY CUTHBERT

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ...
EDDIE MARSAN

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the P...
CATHERINE BELL

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what chi...
CATE BLANCHETT

There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu...
CRAIG ROBINSON

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but...
ALLISON WILLIAMS

I'm a normal person. You say something about me, I'm going to say something back, funny or n...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS

You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that'...
JOHN MCENROE

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to p...
RYAN GOSLING

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
MARILYN MANSON

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
JIMI HENDRIX

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you&...
CHARLIE FINK

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, t...
THOMAS STEINBECK

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.

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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.

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