Paula Abdul Quotes
I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm against people downloading music.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.
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I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.
