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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.

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Wallace Shawn
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
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New York City
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Wallace Michael Shawn
Wally Shawn
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It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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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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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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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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'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 never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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Escape before it’s too late.
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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.
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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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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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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I have been vain since birth.
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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 what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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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 send out little signals I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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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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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
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