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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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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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.
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The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
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Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
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We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can
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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
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In my opinion, life is more important than show business.
