Paula Poundstone Quotes
I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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My top three personal best-dressed list: Lea Michele. I think she really knows how to dress. Blake Lively is great. And Rihanna. I really respect how bold and out-there she is.
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
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好雨知時節，當春乃發生。隨風潛入夜，潤物細無聲。
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We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.
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The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
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I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.
