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.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood

• 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.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• I never pursued being 'famous.'

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Being Famous

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Crush

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• 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.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Power
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Young

• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Wise

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!

  

  Zendaya
  • Man
  • Just
  • Crush

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Years
  • Look

• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Important
  • Way
  • Positive

• I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Joy
  • Focus
  • Gratitude

• My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Long
  • Together

• I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

  

  Cliff Robertson
  • Bad

• I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.

  

  John Clare
  • Country
  • King

• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  

  John Wooden
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Zak Penn
  • People
  • Work
  • High