Wallace Shawn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
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To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
