Zak Penn Quotes
In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.
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I'm going to fire everybody - that’s how. You're either going to stop leaking, or you're going to get fired. If I've got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop.
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Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
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I view myself still as a director. That's what I do.
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I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in.
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In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
