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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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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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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What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.
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I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
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I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.
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The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.
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Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
