Jane Pauley Quotes
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.
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The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
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My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.
