Paloma Elsesser Quotes
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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I make all my decisions on intuition.
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I was 15 when I read the script for 'Earth to Echo.' I thought it was amazing, and I couldn't think of turning it down. It's awesome for a kid from Brooklyn to have an opportunity to be on the big screen. And I had a great experience learning what the movie business is like. So, I'm glad I did it.
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
