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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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 enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.
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I don't really trust the NFL.
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
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The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
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I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.
