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.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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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!
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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.
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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.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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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.
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
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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.
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.
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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.
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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.
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Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
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Cats, it turns out, are even less fond of being dunked in water than Shitsus.
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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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Gott kann uns ebensowenig entbehren wie wir ihn.
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Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.
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I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
