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Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'

Sharon Kay Penman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1945

Topics

Bird Tree Rest Help You Television

A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

Jessica Capshaw

Fun Tired Parents Me Lunch Dinner

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

Me Feel Know Nice Places Write

The most powerful Vietnam movie, to me, was 'The Deer Hunter,' which was more about what happened to the folks who went and about their relationships.

Me Powerful Relationships Deer More

If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'

Selfish You Say Want Greedy Big

At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

Time Name End America Fraud Right

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

People Play Want Actor Act

I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.

Women Think Media Important Well

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

Past World Opportunities Over Years

I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years - but I hadn't been interested in doing a documentary about it. I felt there had been a lot done about Vietnam, and didn't know if I could add anything new to the discussion.

History Feel Doing New Know Done

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

Michaela Conlin

Never First Used Get Homesick Moved

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Children People Laugh Movies Nothing

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

Someone Mean Stage Head Side Used

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