Wallace Shawn Quotes

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Simone Weil

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I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff's record studio every day.

Troy Carter

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I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.

Roddy Piper

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I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

Ron Wyden

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Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

Mike Tyson

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In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.

Michael Korda

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It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

Mitch Hedberg

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The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data.

Jay Samit

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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Chuck Close

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In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'

Allen West

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If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

Rick Nielsen

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The thrill of coming home has never changed.

Guy Pearce

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