Penn Jillette Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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I think work begets work.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it
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CLINTON: I have a feeling that by, the end of this evening, I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.
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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.
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I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work
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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
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To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
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Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.
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On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.
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Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
