Paula Pell Quotes
Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent's head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.
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When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
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Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.
