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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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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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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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'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
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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 in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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The Fever is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
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My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.
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