Sean Penn Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I never read about photography.
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My mother taught me to read.
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Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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I often don't read reviews.
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I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
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I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.
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Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
