Michael Pena Quotes
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
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The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.
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The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
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Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
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No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.
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I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
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I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
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All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
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When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.
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Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.
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I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.
