"The big turning point came when I played in the pit orchestra for a production of SWEENEY TODD and I spent most of the time watching the play instead of playing the score! And that's when I knew I had it bad for acting."

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Source : "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

John Cariani

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“It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.”
“The number one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule and you will be sorry.”
“I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.”
“Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest way is the reason I'm using Vater.”
“In order to reflect, think and plan, you must quiet yourself. You can't see your reflection in churning waters. Water must be still to see your reflection.”
“Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer”
“I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.”

Source : "The Division of Talent". Critical Inquiry, 11, No. 4, June 1985.

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