D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
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Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
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I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
