Paula Deen Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.
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General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.