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 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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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
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I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.
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One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
