Jane Pauley Quotes
We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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I really like watching reruns of 'The Crystal Maze.' It's something that I find weirdly comforting. If I ever have even a small amount of banknotes, I love to 'Crystal Maze' them by throwing them in the air and catching them. But it's never as fun as it looks on TV.
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Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
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We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
