Paula Malcomson Quotes
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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Prior to having babies, I thought - I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.
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Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
