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Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut.


Penelope Douglas

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PENELOPE CRUZ Sometimes, it takes losing everything to make you realize what you really need.
PENELOPE WARD If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. ...
PENELOPE WILLIAMSON Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.
PENELOPE WARD Sometimes the thing we fear more than anything, is really what our soul craves the most.
PENELOPE WARD We all have things we regret…decisions we make that we have to live with. You can’t dwell on the...
PENELOPE WARD Sometimes, those who put up the biggest shields are those who are protecting the biggest hearts.
PENELOPE WARD Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we ke...
PENELOPE LIVELY Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things tha...
PENELOPE LIVELY On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
JULIA PENELOPE On Earth, the bottoms of these cracks can house organisms in a much more pleasant environment than t...
PENELOPE BOSTON If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television h...
PENELOPE ANN MILLER The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.
PENELOPE ANN MILLER Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and ...
PENELOPE ANN MILLER Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good an...
PENELOPE TRUNK (JOURNALIST) While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro...
TOMMY DOUGLAS I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o...
TOMMY DOUGLAS Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had the...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a huge poster collector.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, an...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very e...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS