Paula Malcomson Quotes
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.
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I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.
