Wallace Shawn Quotes
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
Wallace Shawn
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
Ian Frazier
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
Carine Roitfeld
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
Ian Anderson
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Maiara Walsh
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
Randi Weingarten
I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
Ellen Gallagher
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
George Croly
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan
Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
Lois Wyse
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
Wallace Shawn
