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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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
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That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.
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I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.
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If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
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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.
