D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
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The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.
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Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
