Wallace Shawn Quotes
There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.
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Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
