Paula Pell Quotes
My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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He that is rich is wise.
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I think I made more money when I was lifeguarding at 15 years old than I did on my first year at 'SNL.'
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.
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I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.
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My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.
