Paula Fox Quotes
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Just as the true fruit of an apple tree is not an apple, but another tree; the true fruit of a small group is not a new Christian, but another group; the true fruit of a church is not a new group, but a new church; the true fruit of a leader is not a follower, but a new leader; the true fruit of an evangelist is not a convert, but new evangelists. Whenever this principle is understood and applied, the results are dramatic.
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.
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You're not the to be offered fancy things out of loyalty. A good father doesn't spoil a child with gifts.
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My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
