Paula Poundstone Quotes
I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.
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My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
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I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.
