John Patrick Shanley Quotes
I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
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I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.
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Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.
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I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
