D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I love to write.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.
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When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.