Jez Butterworth Mojo Quotes

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

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here. ~ Jez Butterworth

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. ~ Jez Butterworth

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true. ~ Jez Butterworth

Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans! ~ Jez Butterworth

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off. ~ Jez Butterworth

I'm heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I'll break your spine. ~ Jez Butterworth

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

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. ~ Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run. ~ Jez Butterworth

JOHNNY: Friends! Outcasts. Leeches. Undesirables. A blessing on you, and upon this beggars' banquet. This day we draw a line in the chalk, and push back against the bastard pitiless busybody council, and drive them from this place for ever. I, Rooster Byron, your merciless ruler, have decreed that today all my bounty is bestowed upon you, gratis. There will be free booze, bangers, draw, whizz and whatnot, for all the minions of my kingdom. ~ Jez Butterworth

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. ~ Jez Butterworth

I may bring other women here, to this place, and I may tell them I love them, and make love to them. But they will be impostors. And I will be a ghost. Because it means I will have lost you. My body, my brain, my lungs, my stomach, my guts, legs, arms will be here but I won't be. I will be out there, looking for you. And if we meet somewhere, at a restaurant, or a party and I'm with someone, I want you to know that they are by my side only because you are not. And she will be beautiful. And I will be laughing and smiling and she will be laughing and smiling, but she will be laughing at a lie. Because all I will have done to that person is lie to them. All I will do to anyone else, forever, from this moment forward, anyone who isn't you, is lie. I have no choice. ~ Jez Butterworth

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. ~ Eric Butterworth

Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover. ~ Eric Butterworth

When your mind is functioning correctly, there is an out streaming of light from within in the form of inspiration, hunches, leadings, and intuitive flashes - trust this process of inspiration. "In the twinkling of an eye" ideas and plans may flow into your mind. ~ Eric Butterworth

cigarettes before climbing out onto the fire escape for her monthly ritual. With a shaky hand, she flicked her lighter to life and lit what she knew was a cancer stick. The alcohol and ~ Jez Strider

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. ~ Eric Butterworth

CLOSE your eyes, SEE for yourself.
With your minds eye anything is possible, it is where the magic of Ideas, Imagination and Visualization come alive to inspire us to live our dreams or to heal ourselves ~ Hazel Butterworth

Each day dawns with the promise of a personal miracle. Find some magic today. Even just a little bit can go a very long way. ~ Anthon St. Maarten

So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass. ~ Tom Robbins

Jesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered. ~ Eric Butterworth

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. ~ Eric Butterworth

Bart glared at his old friend. I'm not sure I like the new you, he said ~Take me to the blood tavern..Take me to the vampirate ship..If you don't mind me saying so, buddy, since you died, you've gotten awful bossy.What's the rush anyhow? aren't you immortal now? from where I'm sitting, you've got all the time in the world ~ Justin Somper

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise. ~ Billy Corgan

I am unbelievably nervous.
It is most unlike me.
This girl is really messing with my mojo. ~ Siobhan Davis

She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead? ~ Mojo Nixon

That's your damned female hormones talking, Jez." Sonellion grabbed his crotch. "Grow some balls again." She gave him a venomous look. "I have more clarity about the world in this body than I ever had with a set of balls. ~ Wendy Higgins

Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training. ~ Steve Ilg

I don't hate you, Cyndi. You're blood. I have to love you. You just annoy the hell out of me. He put one
arm around her thin shoulders. ~ Jez Morrow

I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe. ~ Eric Butterworth

One of the few times I've ever wished for a penis," she said to Rae when the bartender stepped up to take the order of yet another male customer. They'd been waiting to be served for over twenty minutes. She'd even worn the red magic boob dress tonight, but unfortunately, its mojo offered no help in this particular situation.
"You haven't had sex in six months," Rae said. "If I were you, I'd be wishing for penises every night. ~ Julie James

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do. ~ Robert Genn

Jez cackled, throwing more liquor down her throat. "You so need to be cut off," I murmured softly, but her wildcat ears easily heard me. "And you need to join the party. By the end of the night, this place will be yours." She shoved a shooter across the table and raised one to match in cheers. ~ Trina M. Lee

Kay, I'm sleeping with a gun-toting man I banged in an ally, hopped up on cocaine, who wants to know how to tamper with identification records without the Feds finding out. Oh yeah, and he turns into a wolf. And he's got me wrapped around his cock. ~ Jez Morrow

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet. ~ William Hague

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element. ~ Rick Rubin

Lou loved watching Al savor every bite. She mentally vowed to make him an amazing meal just to see him enjoy it. Maybe her Cuban pork with black beans and cilantro rice. That was a great summer feast- complete with mojitos and mojo sauce. If he savored a burger with such fervor, she he'd swoon over her cooking. ~ Amy E. Reichert

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America ~ Todd Park

The thing I fear comes upon me ~ Eric Butterworth

When Michael Crichton approached the end of a novel (so I've read), he used to start getting up earlier and earlier in the morning. He was desperate to keep his mojo going. He'd get up at six, then five, then three-thirty and two-thirty, till he was driving his wife insane. Finally he had to move out of the house. He checked into a hotel (the Kona Village, which ain't so bad) and worked around the clock till he'd finished the book. Michael Crichton was a pro. He knew that Resistance was strongest at the finish. He ~ Steven Pressfield

sexy vampire mojo. ~ Cassandra Clare

We are human in expression, but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality. ~ Eric Butterworth

We tend to think that it's up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn't ever work, and for the following reason:
If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know? ~ Amanda Butterworth

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect. ~ Eric Butterworth

Taking care of yourself is a priority not an afterthought ~ Hazel Butterworth

Come on, sweetheart. I'm letting you do this. Do it." When she didn't respond, he added, "Listen, I know it's easier when they're not fucking looking at you."
Beckett turned and faced the wall.
"I don't know who hired you, but can I ask you for something?" He talked at the wall.
Here comes the fast-talking, the mojo, the shout to his employees.
"Could you make sure Cole doesn't take credit for his handiwork last night? And can you follow up on that Chris guy?" Beckett turned his head a bit, listening for her answer.
He still trusts me. He still trusts me with his brothers. I can't do it. ~ Debra Anastasia