Stephen Karam Quotes
Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
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I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
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Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
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There's always something that needs attention when you own a property.
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If you're trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that's really important to our mission at Indie Bio.
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In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
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Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.
