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"Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated."
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"To be worthy of recognition, be humble."
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"Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love."
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"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."
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"A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show."
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"I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones."
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"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
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"Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea."
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"An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd."
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"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
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"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
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"When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years."
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"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
Wrong
"It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way."
Humor
"The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play."
Life
"I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous."
Parenting
"I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic."
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"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."
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"I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion."
Power
"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."
Soul
"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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