John Patrick Shanley Quotes

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

John Patrick Shanley

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Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn't even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates.

Jiah Khan

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If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

Jim Cooper

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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

John Betjeman

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America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

Michael Bloomberg

PeopleYou Can Do ItAmericaYouWho

The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.

Robert Dallek

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I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.

Rodney Crowell

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I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.

Mikko Hypponen

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There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.

Mike Mignola

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It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Louis Sullivan

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My life is devoted to business and supporting my family.

Colonel Sanders

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He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.

Clement Clarke Moore

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Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

Cilla Black

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