Paula Pell Quotes
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
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When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
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I like the Gap ad, the khaki one. I liked that.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.
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Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
