John Patrick Shanley Quotes
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
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Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.
