John Patrick Shanley Quotes

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

John Patrick Shanley

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GreatMoneySafetyIndividualWhere

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

John Milton

CharacterPastManDeedsSuperior

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

NothingForceMadeLastsBrute Force

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Maurice Chevalier

ExperienceManFeelSeventyTrue

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

Jeffrey Kluger

AgeMoneyValueShortCreditCards

We try to make our own BTS context. Maybe it's risky to bring some inspiration from novels from so long ago, but I think it paid off more. It comes through like a gift box for our fans. That's something you can't find easily from American artists.

RM

GiftThinkAmericanLongYouFind

Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ease your mind, so I am going to keep it up in my free time. It is a very fun skill to have.

Rose Leslie

TimeI AmFunMindFreeFind

I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.

Matt Bomer

HappenMakeLikeReallyMontgomery

You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.

Michael Moore

OpinionYouWrongKnowRight

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

Lois Lowry

PowerWordsRacismWorldSociety

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

Jason Moran

LoveUnderstandPlayingAnyI Love

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

Josh McDowell

MeetingsRememberYouMeetingSaid

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Jose Maria Aznar

WorldThinkYouComfortWayOthers

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