Paula Malcomson Quotes
I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
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Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ's existence than for any of theirs.
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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.
