Penny Marshall Quotes
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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I basically raised myself.
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I think what's most important is family.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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I make technology ridiculous.
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When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.
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I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
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Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.
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I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers.
