Jessie Pavelka Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
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Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. I wondered at its perfect coherence, which rejected me.
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If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.
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A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.
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I didn't know I was a sex symbol in the U.K., but if I am, then I'm flattered.
