Wallace Shawn Quotes
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.Wallace Shawn
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman -
I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
Kate Winslet -
We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
Ma Jun -
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar -
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
Laura Mvula
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
Sam Graves -
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
Imogen Cunningham -
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell -
What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
Laura Linney -
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
Dan Hill -
I like to be against the odds.
Barry Bonds
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
Kate Middleton -
Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.
H. L. Mencken -
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck -
Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. Forster -
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
Maurice Gibb Bee Gees -
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
Wallace Shawn