Wallace Shawn Quotes

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

Jenny Zhang

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Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.

Andrew Vachss

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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

Robert Maxwell

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Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Matt Groening

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I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a steep face in front of you, this rule applies more than ever. Here, you have to get the ball up in the air as quickly as possible.

Matt Kuchar

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I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

Michael Aspel

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There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

Jonathan Carroll

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I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

Demetri Martin

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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Colin Powell

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A lot of women say, 'I look good thanks to magic creams,' but that's a joke.

Brigitte Nielsen

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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Paul Theroux

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Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Thomas Griffith

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