Wallace Shawn | politics
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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Wallace Shawn | patriotism
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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Wallace Shawn | movies
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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Wallace Shawn | humor
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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Wallace Shawn | hope
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 | hope
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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Wallace Shawn | history
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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Wallace Shawn | funny
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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Wallace Shawn | funny
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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Wallace Shawn | funny
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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