Paula Pell Quotes
My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.
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When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.
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Here I am sitting in the back of a cab with Catherine Zeta-Jones who is telling me Michael Douglas has fond memories of me - it just makes me feel good as a human being.
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My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.
