"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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"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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"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 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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"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."
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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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"I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank."
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"I'll see you in my dreams."
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"When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
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"Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number."
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