Pramila Jayapal Quotes
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
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The world is always in movement.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
