Sean Penn Quotes
The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.
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Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.
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That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
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The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
