Jane Pauley Quotes
The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.
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I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.
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When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.
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The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.
