Stephen Karam Quotes
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.
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Producing never stops. It's 24/7.
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Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.
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Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.
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Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.
