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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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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I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
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Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
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I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.
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Night is the mother of counsels.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
