Paula Malcomson Quotes

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

Paula Malcomson

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• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Company
  • Stock

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Human
  • Fate
  • Circumstances

• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Him

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

  

  Jack Horner
  • See
  • Birds
  • Colorful

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I hated school. Hated it.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • School
  • Hated

• Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Comedy
  • Fake

• It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

  

  James Chanos
  • Space
  • Technology

• Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.

  

  Terrence McNally
  • Writing
  • Hear
  • Truthful

• I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Writing