Penny Marshall Quotes
Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
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As for myself, I was never against Russia.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
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We take the same line as the United States: the austerity policies need to be accompanied by greater flexibility to stimulate growth.
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If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
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I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.
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I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
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A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.
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I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that's where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.
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Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.
