"A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go."

-- William J Doherty

“People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working...”
“When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.”
“Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?”
“I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.”
“I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls.”
“You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”
“People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible about it.”

Source : "The Complete Plays".

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