Wallace Shawn Quotes

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulWordsManPeopleLucky

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

John Boyega

LanguageFirstFortunateEnglish

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Jerry Rice

FootballMeGameWayNeverField

Art is activism.

Angie Thomas

ArtActivism

I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

Jeff Nichols

PeopleAdviceYouGoDesireTry

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

Michael Buble

TimeChanceGrowYouMoreFirst

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

Tony Gilroy

BudgetAmbiguityYourRises

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Tom Stoppard

WritingPlayMoviesInvolvedWho

Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.

Tom Wujec

PeopleColorRememberMeaningWhy

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

Judi Dench

ThinkCareDownPlacesOldShut

Your real feelings are inside you.

Jose Carreras

YouFeelingsInsideRealYour

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Don DeLillo

FearTechnologyPeopleConnection

For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never felt comfortable enough to walk into a room with someone like Larry David and audition.

Cheryl Hines

WalkMeWalkingSomeoneDoingNever

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