Penelope Keith Quotes
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.