Wallace Shawn Quotes

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HopeSituationCountryWayBecome

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

Joe Mantegna

PlaceMoviesOverWhateverDid

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

Jodi Rell

FaithTimeFocusGovernmentAction

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

Robert Pinsky

LoveMyselfI AmMeSingingSong

Colorado needs a governor who brings people together to create jobs and cut government spending.

John Hickenlooper

TogetherGovernmentPeopleCreate

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

Steve Kanaly

BusinessEnoughLongYouBigStay

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

Sue Monk Kidd

WomenSpeakGenderRaceRightOut

We got to the moon.

Rusty Schweickart

MoonGotTo The Moon

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

Jared Polis

PastEmbraceAlwaysIn The PastBeen

I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

Clayton M. Christensen

HeartSpeakLostSometimesWrite

Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.

Clay Clark

FailurePeopleWinYouResources

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

Brad Falchuk

QualityYouDownTryBostonOut

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

Ciaran Hinds

WorkSoulSomeoneYouActingDoes

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