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Sean Penn Inspirational Quotes (69)

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It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.
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Haiti, like any place, has its security problems it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
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It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
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One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.
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A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.
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That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
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Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.
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Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
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Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
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I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
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Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.
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Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.
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I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
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I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
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Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
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There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.
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I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.
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You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!
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I really love to make movies.
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
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I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.
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On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
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