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When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  People , Gift , Father , Believe


There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  Life , You , Journey , Relationship


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

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  Just , Stage , Powerful , Play


If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  You , People , Know , Someone


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.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  You , People , Think , True


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

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  Write , Modern , Economics , Theater


Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the film, that's not such a stretch. But when you're doing plays like 'Proof,' it's just five people or something in the thing, and it gets to be a really difficult re-conception.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  You , People , Back , Doing


I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  Me , Back , Man , Uniform


I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  Three , Children , Eye , Blind


You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.

Author: John Patrick Shanley - American Playwright
  You , Something , Money , Live


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