Wallace Shawn Quotes

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1943

Topics

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There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

Jess Walter

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andre Maurois

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Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

Maximilian Schell

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Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I think that, generally, a woman brings in luck for her husband after marriage, but in my case, my husband is lucky for me.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

Russell Crowe

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Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.

Roxane Gay

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I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

Mika Brzezinski

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I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area where the directors and the writers and script advisors are.

Miriam Shor

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It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Don Henley

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Serena Williams is my sports idol.

Christen Press

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I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

Cornelia Parker

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