Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
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I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
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I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
