Jane Pauley Quotes

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

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• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Takes
  • Shoe

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Lens

• I couldn't deal with a normal life.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Deal
  • Normal

• The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • United Nations

• A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Art
  • True

• By unapologetically opposing the transformation of America into a Third World country, the GOP would sweep the white vote–once white people recovered from the shock of any candidate asking for their vote. Why should Republicans be ashamed of getting white votes? How about the party work on getting more of them?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • World
  • Worry

• Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Selfish

• You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Guy

• Koreans are hilarious.

  

  Bobby Lee
  • Hilarious

• I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

  

  Neil Postman
  • People
  • Bad
  • Culture

• I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Important
  • Guilty

• You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Texas

• The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Good

• There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • People
  • Dark
  • Lonely

• I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

  

  Darren Star
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Strong

• I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• I knew I had to be sure-footed about the issues I was talking about. When you're twenty-nine years old, who the hell is going to think you're credible? It wasn't enough to have ideas; I had to know my facts. I had to demonstrate command from the minute I started running. I understood that was the test I had to pass.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Running

• There's something about Shania Twain I just don't trust. I don't know, I can't put my finger...she's just too thin. I like my country singers to have the big hair and the big ass.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Country
  • She
  • Trust

• I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

  

  Piers Anthony
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Light

• Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie he’d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, “Are we outside?” He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. “Nope.” “Then no.” I turned my attention back to the keg.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Attention
  • Fall
  • Audience

• New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Annoyed