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 can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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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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The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
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Everything isn't starting out well, but you have to look at it like we can turn it around.
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Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
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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.
