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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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
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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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My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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My favourite riposte to a heckle is to say, 'Excuse me, I'm trying to work here. How would you like it if I stood yelling down the alley while you're giving blow jobs to transsexuals?'
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Big studio comedies are such a headache.
