Paula Fox Quotes
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
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I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don't have to work anymore. I tell people I don't have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can't go broke if you turn a profit.
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My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.
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My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
