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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Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
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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.
