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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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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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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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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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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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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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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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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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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Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.
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Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
