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Wallace Shawn Quotes

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Vanity Birth Over Years Been

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Wife Me Heaven Meet Will

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.

Power Promotion Rise More Earned

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Myself Choose Person Will Way Write

God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11", to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.

God Great Talent Me Believe Skill

I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.

Rupert Sheldrake

Work Hard Work People Think Top

I am privileged to have the kind of platform I do and the kind of support I do. A lot of women in this country don't have that.

Women I Am Support Country Kind Am

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

Mary Pope Osborne

Childhood War Saturday Games 1950s

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

Culture Me Flaws Civilization Desire

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

I Can Go Movies Lifestyle Where

My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

Christie Brinkley

Teacher Day Amazing Mom Person She

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Work You Done Happen Eggs Get

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.

Responsibility Child Parents Dinner

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