Paul Reiser Quotes
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
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The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
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The fundamental issue in resolving traumatic stress is to restore the proper balance between the rational and emotional brains, so that you can feel in charge of how you respond and how you conduct your life. When we’re triggered into states of hyper- or hypoarousal, we are pushed outside our “window of tolerance”—the range of optimal functioning.4 We become reactive and disorganized; our filters stop working—sounds and lights bother us, unwanted images from the past intrude on our minds, and we panic or fly into rages. If we’re shut down, we feel numb in body and mind; our thinking becomes sluggish and we have trouble getting out of our chairs.
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Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.
