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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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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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 just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind trying to figure out the best way to be accessible.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
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Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
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As you know I have always been more afraid of a peace offer than of an air raid.
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Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
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Belief is a luxury – only those who have real knowledge have a right to believe; otherwise belief is merely plausible opinion.
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When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.
