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.

  

  Oliver North
  • Home
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• My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
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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.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
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• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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  • Dinosaur

• I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Body

• 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.

  

  Sam Ervin
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  • Watergate

• Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

  

  Walter Johnson
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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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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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.

  

  Carey Mulligan
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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.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
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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.

  

  Gary Ross
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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.

  

  J. D. Souther
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• I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

  

  Maika Monroe
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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.

  

  Jack Ma
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  • Sea

• I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.

  

  Washed Out
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• When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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• I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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• I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

  

  John Cusack
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  • Control

• I'm blessed, and... all the time, I sit and think, 'Wow.'

  

  Draymond Green
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• If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
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• I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

  

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