Wallace Shawn Quotes
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.
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From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
