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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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  • Book

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
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  • Blood

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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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.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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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.

  

  Carly Pope
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  • Guilty

• I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Strong

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
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  • Dream
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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.

  

  Manuel Puig
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  • Reality
  • Me

• I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.

  

  Magic Johnson
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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.

  

  Ice Cube
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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.

  

  Tamron Hall
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  • Hope

• I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

  

  Tatyana Ali
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  • Me

• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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
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• 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.

  

  Edmund White
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  • Business

• 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.

  

  Garry Hynes
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• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
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• One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

  

  Jason Ritter
  • Life
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  • Character

• I know nothing about making a movie.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Movie

• There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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  • Character

• I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.

  

  Jakob Dylan
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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.

  

  Penn Jillette
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