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    Actor Sean Penn Says 'To Write A Book Was To Allow Myself No Kind Of Containment'

    The two-time Academy Award-winning actor just published his first novel, "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff."
    Mar 27, 2018 6 minutes
    Sean Penn attends the 7th Annual Sean Penn & Friends Haiti Rising Gala benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization on Jan. 6, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

    Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn has just published his first novel. Penn joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to talk about “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.”

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    Interview Highlights

    On pursuing a book project

    “Well I had come to a point where, I looked back over the time I’d spent in movies, and I think that if I had a greatest strength it was playing well with others, it was a collaborative interest and investment. However, cumulatively, over time, I think that anybody who has an individual creative spirit, to whatever degree, there is a time where you start to recognize that it is a great effort to play well with others, and then find the time where you don’t play well with others. And what it’s really doing is, there’s a little push behind you saying, ‘You got to go and travel the road

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