"When I finally went to Ireland, I had……" — John Patrick Shanley
"When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it."
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20 Quotes by John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and…
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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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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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