Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
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It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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Attention. That's all girls want.
