"Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done."

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Source : John Patrick Shanley (1991). “The Big Funk: A Casual Play”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

John Patrick Shanley

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“We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.”

Source : "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.
“I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.”
“I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.”
“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
“Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be”
“Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.”
“The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.”
“Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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