Penny Marshall Quotes
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.
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I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.
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'I was very different from most kids. I would stay home and write and put on shows when other people would go to the football game, and… I think I just put all that energy into wanting to get out of there and do something with my life.'
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In my opinion, life is more important than show business.
