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 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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Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.
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To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!
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Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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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.
