John Patrick Shanley Quotes
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
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I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
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We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they're call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.
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In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
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Salman Khan is probably one of the most good looking people we have in our industry.
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Amor de' far gentile un cor villano,E non far d'un gentil contrario effetto.
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
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On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
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I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.
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I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
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If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
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London audiences are the most challenging around - it's a group of such diverse strangers.
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The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
