Wallace Shawn Quotes
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We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Many cats are the death of the mouse.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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And with Yeats you lean against a broken pear tree, the day hooded by low clouds.
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I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be doing one and focusing on that. I'm in awe of anyone who tries to be an actor-director, so I couldn't really see that.
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I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.
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Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
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I have been vain since birth.
