Paula Pell Quotes
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
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My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.
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Nowadays, all the world over, we cannot confine the definition of a nationality to the narrow bounds of race, religion etc, Nations are extending the rights of their respective communities even to others who may not belong to them except by their mere residence amongst them and their determination to live and be with them.
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Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
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'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.
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I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.
