"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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"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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"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?"
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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 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."
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"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality."
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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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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
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