Paula Pell Quotes
I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I love simplicity.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
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I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.
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In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
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I'm excited to be a part of the new direction the Barbie brand is headed, specifically how they are celebrating diversity in the line and encouraging kids to raise their voices.
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I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.
