Penelope Keith Quotes
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
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As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.
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I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.
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With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
