Wallace Shawn Quotes
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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I like to create a simple space and surround myself with things that I like to look at.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
