Penelope Spheeris Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
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I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.
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Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
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Big studio comedies are such a headache.
