Penelope Mitchell Quotes
Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
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I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an honor.
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Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.
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I wish I started out as a solo artist.
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It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
Garry Kasparov -
Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.
