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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I always just want to move along to the next step.
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The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.
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I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
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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.
