Wallace Shawn Quotes
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.
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How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.
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What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved. God wants this so much that He has promised to knock down every obstacle in the way, enduring even His own death, to be with us, to consummate this love.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.