Penn Jillette Quotes
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.
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I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
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Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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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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It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
Nastassja Kinski -
My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
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I do Hatha yoga at Yogaworks three times a week and do two hikes a week.
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We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.
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We seem to be able to be fully comfortable only when the remainder of humanity can be labeled as members versus nonmembers.
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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
