Paula Pell Quotes
I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Every idea has its time.
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We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
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I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine - it's part of not being totally insane.
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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
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I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
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The incentives that people need to work and to find meaning in their lives should be found beyond material wealth and power.
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I'm just getting older and better.
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I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.
