D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
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I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
