Wallace Shawn Quotes
I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
Wallace Shawn
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
Umberto Eco
For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
P. J. O'Rourke
Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
Otto Schily
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra
As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
Victoria Pendleton
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
Felix Dennis
It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Joel Osteen
The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
P. W. Botha
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
E. Nesbit
It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.
Jennifer Pahlka
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Kate Christensen
I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
Wallace Shawn