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I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed. — John Patrick Shanley

Where the terror is, you must go. — John Patrick Shanley

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon — Nelson Mandela

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

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. — John Patrick Shanley

I was just thinking that he might be willing. It's not like he needs his semen. — Buffy Andrews

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts. — Mark Nepo

I have doubts! I have such doubts! — John Patrick Shanley

Dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot ... how BIG ... thank you. thank you for my life. — John Patrick Shanley

Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu. — John Patrick Shanley

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. — Robert Breault

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge. — John Patrick Shanley

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain? — John Patrick Shanley

It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."
He laughed. "No, honey, that would be you. — B. J. Daniels

Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. — Alan W. Watts

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley

You have no right to act on your own! You have taken vows, obedience being one! You answer to us! You have no right to step outside the church! — John Patrick Shanley

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. — Paul Tillich

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough. — John Patrick Shanley

the over-under, is just another example of how the bookmakers are always looking for more options to give the guesser an opportunity — Amarillo Slim Preston

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special. — Sebastian Vettel

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. — John Patrick Shanley

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000. — John Patrick Shanley

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch. — John Patrick Shanley

To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail.
-Rayner Unwin — Jeff Shanley

The world hadn't come to an end, just an end as man knew it. But there had to be a balance for the chaos. There had to be asylum from the damned. — Tera Shanley

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. — John Patrick Shanley

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

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public. — Clay Shirky

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time? — Lauren Zalaznick

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is. — John Patrick Shanley

Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone — Mackenzie Crowne

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera. — John Patrick Shanley

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. — John Patrick Shanley

Kevin Kline is an honorary Brit. — Bryce Dallas Howard