Penelope Mitchell Quotes

T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since. No one nails urban despair quite like Eliot.

Penelope Mitchell

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FriendMeLiteratureNailsFirst

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

Jerry Della Femina

MoneyPennyTaxesSinglePayEvery

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Melissa George

CreativeBrotherMeFriendsYouSee

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Jean Piaget

KnowledgeThinkWayHumanActive

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Stephen Rodrick

YouDownWallWantMeanSit

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Smokey Robinson

MyselfSongPotentialYouWantEven

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

Mary Ellen Mark

MeCuriosityCameraConnectionNever

My favorite movie of all time is probably 'Apocalypse Now.'

Dominic Monaghan

TimeNowFavoriteMovieApocalypse

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

Deidre Hall

WomenStrongBeliefAbilitySustain

As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it.

Clayton M. Christensen

MoneyJobCustomerYouDonePay

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Chuck Close

WalkSpaceYouPersonSculpture

By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

Alfred Enoch

BirthdayTimeMeTheatreDoingLead

I don't like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired to do the scary movies because I'm truly scared and upset.

Shawnee Smith

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