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 don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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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's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does notconcede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
