Paula Poundstone Quotes

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

Paula Poundstone

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I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

Joanne Froggatt

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There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.

Mary Gauthier

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I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses.

Jay Samit

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It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

Douglas Alexander

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Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports.

Bobby Kotick

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If a brand wants a specific girl, they want a specific girl, wherever you are.

Philomena Kwao

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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Paulo Coelho

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Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Thomas Steinbeck

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The acquisition of Silverback 7 will expand our ability to support vital national security programs, and there's not a better business-friendly environment to do that than right here in Central Florida.

Todd Wilcox

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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Richard Dawkins

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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

Kyle MacLachlan

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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

Junot Diaz

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