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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.


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IRVING PENN The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this wee...
KAL PENN To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
KAL PENN Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a...
KAL PENN I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional polit...
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