"I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it."

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Source : "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

Conor McPherson

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“Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.”
“A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.”
“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”

Source : Ben & Candy Carson @RealBenCarson, twitter.com. October 29, 2013.
“Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.”
“We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.”
“A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.”

Source : "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.”

Source : Karen Abbott (2007). “Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul”, p.3, Random House
“Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.”

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