Paullina Simons Quotes
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I'm not radical.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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Christ is born into the world through each of us.
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Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
