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Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough.

~John Patrick Shanley

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Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

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I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

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I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

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Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

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I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.

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Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

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I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.

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When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

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When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 3rd, 1950

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