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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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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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'm a natural blonde!
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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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I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.
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We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.
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I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.
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The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.
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Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!
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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.
