Jane Pauley Quotes
About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.
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As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.
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I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.
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About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.
