D. A. Pennebaker Quotes

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

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• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

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• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

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• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

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• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

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• A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.

  

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• I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

  

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• I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

  

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• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

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• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

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• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

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• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

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• Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

  

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• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

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• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

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• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

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• Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

  

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• The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

  

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• The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

  

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• When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

  

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• I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

  

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