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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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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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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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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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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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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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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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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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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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.
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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
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I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
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The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?
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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.
