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From Quotes by Wallace Shawn
- If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a…
- I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look…
- Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
- 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…
- I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I…
- My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
- From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played…
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