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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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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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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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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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've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.
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Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
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I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.
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I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.
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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.
