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Paula Poundstone Quotes

There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.

Paula Poundstone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: December 29, 1959

Topics

You Prepare Only Many Foods Really

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

Marriage Fear Women Know Young How

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

Appreciation Better America Student

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

People Real Extraordinary Real People

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

Good Myself Small You Bad Back

Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans!

Love History Dance Feel Laugh You

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Devdutt Pattanaik

Imagination Death You Stop Animals

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.

Success Mother Believe In Yourself Me

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Truth Truth Is Extraordinary Ordinary

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

Good Art Struggle Soul Growing Up

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.

Women Men America White Country

At a mall you can almost get frostbite, it's so boring. Looking different is worth a lot.

Looking Worth You Boring Different

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Lewis H. Lapham

People Journalism Be True Too Much

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