Paula Poundstone Quotes

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

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• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Truth
  • You
  • Paint

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Film

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • American
  • Small
  • Owe

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• My thing was play as hard as you can, don't be stupid, pay attention to details, and have enough guts in the clutch that you're not afraid to make a play. Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Important
  • Attention
  • Stupid

• Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Words

• They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Twitter
  • Case
  • Housewife

• The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Women

• I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Women
  • Night
  • Comedy