Paula Poundstone Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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I like to get real pretty.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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That's the Apple I want - I want an Apple that's bold and taking risks and being aggressive.
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Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.
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The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
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When I go home, I'm not the DA. I talk to my son about his day, I talk to my daughter about her day. I'm a wife and a mother.
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Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
