Zak Penn Quotes
The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I just can't read music.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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I do not make secrets from my years, and probably it’s good. Since people give me much less than there really is.
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The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.
