Jane Pauley Quotes
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing. No credit is given for distinguishing between these two very different emotions.
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If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
