Norbert Leo Butz Quotes

#1. I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

Markus Zusak

#2. It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

Norbert Leo Butz

#3. Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Mason Cooley

#4. The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

Ranbir Kapoor

#5. What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don't empower them to fix what's broken?

Ed Catmull

#6. I have 10 brothers and sisters.

Norbert Leo Butz

#7. If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

Norbert Leo Butz

#8. If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

Norbert Leo Butz

#9. In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

Norbert Leo Butz

#10. There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

Cate Blanchett

#11. The garden is a kind of sanctuary.

John Berger

#12. Be a wave of peace and let it wash away all of the hatred from your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Ronnie Spector

#14. I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.

Norbert Leo Butz

#15. I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.

Donald Miller

#16. The one who teaches is the giver of eyes.

Confucius

#17. I make decisions quickly.

Norbert Leo Butz

#18. I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

Aneurin Barnard

#19. I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

Tony Abbott

#20. I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

Norbert Leo Butz

#21. I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?'

Norbert Leo Butz

#22. Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

Juan Cole