Sean Penn Quotes
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
Quotes to Explore
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After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
