Sean Penn Quotes
I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.
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You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.
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Roger Ailes champions women, whether it's Paula Zahn, who worked for Fox, Greta Van Susteren - we've always had a woman in primetime - Megyn Kelly, myself; I had a primetime show.
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I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout parents. They were always giving back and serving the community. So when I became fortunate enough and blessed to play the game of basketball, I was also fortunate enough to follow in my parents' footsteps and give back like the way they did.
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I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and go through all of that and come right out to be drowned in a river in Mississippi. I found this hypocrisy is all over America.
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
