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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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Wallace Shawn
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
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Wallace Michael Shawn
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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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.
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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
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Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
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I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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Escape before it’s too late.
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You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
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