Pauline Gedge Quotes
I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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Those who go along get along.
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Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
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People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports - going around the world in the bar of a jumbo jet, 'Tell the plane to wait, I'm running late!' - there is something very Austin Powers about David Frost, a man who, in all seriousness, would approach women in a safari suit, with sideburns.
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I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
