William Shawn Quotes

We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

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• Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.

  

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• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

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• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  

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• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

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• People believe what they want to believe.

  

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• If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

  

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• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

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• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

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• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

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• I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

  

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• If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

  

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• I've got a lot of other things I want to do.

  

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• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

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• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

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• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

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• I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.

  

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• The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.

  

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• If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

  

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• Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

  

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• We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

  

  William Shawn
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