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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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.
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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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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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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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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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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 don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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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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You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
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Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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I've always felt connected to music. There was always music playing at home, and I'd just dance and sing.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
