Stephen Karam Quotes

As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.

Stephen Karam

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• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Loyalty

• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Positive

• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thought
  • Poverty
  • Abundance

• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Power
  • Party
  • Office

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Crazy
  • Doing
  • Old

• I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • World
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Tough

• I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Remember

• Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'

  

  Jack Benny
  • Life
  • Money
  • Thug

• One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Different
  • Women
  • Gossip

• The importance of human judgment does not evaporate in the future, and as connected individuals, we will have to exercise sound judgment about what we choose to share or not share about ourselves.

  

  Jared Cohen
  • Future
  • Exercise

• It's important for me to highlight my views for veterans who've fought for America and at the same time don't have anything to show for it. It's kind of dear to me.

  

  2 Chainz
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Shows

• Advice? Look at your pay statements.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Advice
  • Look
  • Pay

• As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Baby
  • Advice
  • Poet