Penny Marshall Quotes
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.
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I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
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It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.
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My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.
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When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.
