Penn Jillette Quotes
The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.
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I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
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There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
