D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I eat all the time, and I run all the time.
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I know if you get mad, and in a world with all the competitors I've been around in my life, either from fighting or wrestling or other sports, you have to learn to breathe.
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We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'