James Cash Penney Quotes
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.
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I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
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I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.
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Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
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No one survives life.
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The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
