Joe Penny Quotes
If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
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I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.
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When we talk of a resurgent Asia, people think of the great changes that have come about in Shanghai. I share this aspiration to transform Mumbai in the next five years in such a manner that people would forget about Shanghai and Mumbai will become a talking point.
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As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.
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If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.
