Penny Junor Quotes
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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To go back means defeat.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
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Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
