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 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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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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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
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I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
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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.
