#thing

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#got #government #indict #innocence #now

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself. ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#career #destroy #embarrass #failed #figured

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. ↗

— Sean Penn

#i think #minute #prepare #read #something

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. ↗

— Sean Penn

#comedies #demands #done #draining #drama

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#defenders #does #heat #more #nothing

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#furnishes #plaything #quotations

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy. ↗

— Tom Petty

#down #feel #i #lot #made

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#bad #both #by the time #deep #develop

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#anything #find #first #gets #if at first

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#because #discipline #looking #love #sell