"All plays stem from personal experience. I was……" — John Patrick Shanley
"All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it."
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20 Quotes by John Patrick Shanley
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I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
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Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?
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I have doubts! I have such doubts!
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Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give…
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Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
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Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you…
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts…
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dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank…
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Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite…
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I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life,…
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Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't…
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If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in…
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