Wallace Shawn Quotes

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RideYouDownCircleRoller Coaster

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Amy Chua

LoveMyselfDayParentsMeBelieve

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Stephen Covey

NatureMakeupYouProductAffect

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Simon Van Booy

LoveThinkYouFallTestExcitement

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

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I don't like to use my last name. I don't like it attached to things because people think you can just stamp your name on something, and it's not organic or that you're just doing it for money.

Rob Kardashian

MoneyPeopleThinkNameDoingYou

Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.

Ron Conway

New YorkNewSan FranciscoStarted

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

Donna Summer

YouKnowWantNeverBeenScream

I was offered 'Popeye,' which Robert Altman made. They offered me $2 million to direct that, which was good money. I wasn't interested in it. I don't like that kind of movie.

Peter Bogdanovich

GoodMoneyMeKindMillionMade

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky

SocietyYouGrammarStudyingSystem

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

WisdomKnowledgeStudyObserveMust

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Rem Koolhaas

GreatProblemWorthBuildShape

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

Kevin Ayers

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