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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Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
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Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
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There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
