Kal Penn Quotes
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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People see images now more than they see movies.
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The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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My job is to generate discussion.
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'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.
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The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
