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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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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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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By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. It's no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings.
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Mrs. Pidgeon: That little girl whose mother is in the, um, 'threesome.' Why do you say she's confused about her gender? She seems perfectly normal to me.Sparrow: Mom, she's a boy.Mrs. Pidgeon: Oh. Well then, I'm not quite so worried about that revealing top. I was going to speak to her mother.
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Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform 'The Creation of the World' and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of 'Good and Evil', then God enters in me.
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'While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.' '
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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
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We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.
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I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.
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A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.
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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.
