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.
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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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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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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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My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.
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Martin Luther King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
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To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don’t consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.
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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.
