Paula Poundstone Quotes

There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.

Paula Poundstone

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• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • House
  • You
  • More

• A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Health

• I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Fan
  • Westerns

• I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Same
  • Poison
  • Relative

• I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Alone

• I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Problems
  • Interest
  • Relaxing

• Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Look
  • Inside
  • Frame

• Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Doubt

• Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection (the title of my book), which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Book

• Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Boy

• I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Nature

• That don't look good," Kramisha said. "Not good at all." She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose attention was so focused on me I swear he didn't look like he would notice if a giant white elephant in a tutu danced around the room. "Ain't that the human kid who was down here before?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Good
  • She
  • Attention

• I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and doing independent movies and off-Broadway theater. I loved it, I had a really good time doing that, and I worked on a lot of projects that are very dear to my heart, both plays and films.

  

  Jared Harris
  • Time
  • Good
  • Heart

• Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

  

  William Kennedy
  • Literature
  • Greek
  • Currents

• I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Directors

• We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Theater
  • Escape
  • Mine

• There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.

  

  Paula Poundstone