John Patrick Shanley Quotes

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

John Patrick Shanley

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You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.

Stephen Graham Jones

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I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.

Tony D'Souza

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If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the whole thing unravels. That's the thing about being basically - whisper it quietly - happy, is that you don't really want to change anything, because once you start changing stuff, then what you've got all disappears.

Robert Webb

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I started off as an Australian model. I had so many knockbacks, having short hair and being rejected, and I always thought: I'm never gonna get to where I want to get unless I start looking more feminine.

Ruby Rose

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It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

Donald Cargill

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I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'

Christian Louboutin

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The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

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I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

Annie Lennox

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When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

William Shatner

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No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Pliny the Elder

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I work out all the time. I love it.

Timbaland

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I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Nicolas Cage

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