Michael Pena Quotes
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
Quotes to Explore
-
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
-
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
-
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
-
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
-
I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
-
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
-
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
-
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
-
Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
-
If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
-
You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
-
Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.
-
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
-
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
-
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
-
Cats, it turns out, are even less fond of being dunked in water than Shitsus.
-
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
-
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
-
I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.
-
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
-
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
-
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
