"Who says one instance of writing has anything……" — Wallace Shawn
"Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?"
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49 Quotes by Wallace Shawn
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- A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a…
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- I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put…
- We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I…
- I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they…
- If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand…
- I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make…
- I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still…
- I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up…
- My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them…
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