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John Patrick Shanley Quotes

'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.

John Patrick Shanley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1950

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Powerful Play Stage Miracle Just

I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.

Friend God Best Me Believe Going

I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, as the youngest of four children and the only girl. My father died when I was only a year and a half. He was killed in a car accident when he was 26.

Ann-Marie Campbell

Father Car Girl Children Year Up

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Women People You Secret Share Your

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Ruth Ann Minner

Life Death Said Want Trash Talk

I want to be the one to make a change, like when my father started his music. It's about the message. Coffee is a vehicle to create change.

Change Father Music Coffee Create

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.

People You Sunday Place Go New

Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.

Funny Me Crazy Seems Decent Dude

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Life Children Trying Poet Cut Knot

I think that things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that I think it's actually created a bit of a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed.

Fear Culture Think You Too Much Out

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.

Thought Dark Shadows Go Three Mail

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

Work Purpose Writing Think Ownership

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

Goals Fight People Animals True Eat

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