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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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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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As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
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Ellos también son como yo, me digo. Y así me defiendo de ellos. Y así me defiendo de mí.
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Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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It was a nice win for us, a game that we shot the ball well. They just kept coming back and found a way to get back in the game with various plays. It was a great game to watch as a fan.
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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.
