Paula Malcomson Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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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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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
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Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
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I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
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I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
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This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
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Actors bond really quickly.
