Sean Penn Quotes
You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Pilates is great.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
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I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
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The constant is always mythologies and the very first stories that we have. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.
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Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.
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You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.
