Paullina Simons Quotes

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
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  • Turn

• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
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• I see myself as a story teller.

  

  E. L. James
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• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Dream
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  • Wish

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
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• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
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  • Build

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
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• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
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  • Great

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
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• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
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  • Mind

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Friends
  • Only

• It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

  

  Hal Price
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good. If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.

  

  Antonio Gotto
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• It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Time
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• Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

  

  Charles M. Schulz
  • Life

• After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Different

• I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?

  

  James McAvoy
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  • Up
  • Grandparents

• With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

  

  Paullina Simons
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing