Wallace Shawn Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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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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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
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My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.
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He = Duchamp himself, writing in the third person CHOSE IT. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.
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Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
