John Patrick Shanley Quotes

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

John Patrick Shanley

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Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Jerry Saltz

PowerEyeProcessBlurCreating

The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.

Anderson Silva

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The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.

John Hunt Morgan

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Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

Jeff Koons

TrustYourselfYouGoWantOutside

I just don't like my face.

Amanda Seyfried

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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

CultureManPowerfulIndependent

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

Robbie Robertson

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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

Roald Dahl

WorldYouGoNothingMoreFabulous

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

Martin Scorsese

MeCameraYouBadSayMood

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

Monica Johnson

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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

RelationshipTimePeopleWriting

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Joseph Barbera

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