Penn Jillette Quotes
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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God does arithmetic.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.
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Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.
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I like small stories.
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I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
