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 I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'
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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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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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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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The force of union conquers all.
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Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.
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I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
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I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.
