Paula Poundstone Quotes
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.
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Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
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If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
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The mind doesn't know anything about age, your subconscious mind knows nothing about time or space. And so, I am hanging around young people all the time and I operate like they do. I don't think of myself as being old.
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I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.
