Paula Malcomson Quotes
Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I'd like to carry on as manager.
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The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.
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Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.