Penelope Keith Quotes
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.
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Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.
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I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
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I have a bit of an obsession with eyes and always want to use them.
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Beauty is less important than quality.
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I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
