Wallace Shawn
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“In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.” -Wallace Shawn
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“Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else’s?” -Wallace Shawn
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“In terms of number of movies, I’ve been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I’m onscreen, it’s not so long.” -Wallace Shawn
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“I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.” -Wallace Shawn
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“In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.” -Wallace Shawn
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“For some reason, people find me funny. It’s quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It’s even harder to define why a person would be funny. It’s a word that I can’t define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.” -Wallace Shawn
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“But because we’ve all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.” -Wallace Shawn
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“I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don’t think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.” -Wallace Shawn
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“I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!” -Wallace Shawn
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