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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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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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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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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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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There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
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No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.
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In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.
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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.