Paula Cole Quotes

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Paula Cole

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 5, 1968

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

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I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

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The monsters are in your own head.

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I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

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When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.

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I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

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I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

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I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

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I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

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People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.

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I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

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So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but I think that niche is perhaps underserved, so I'm going to serve that.

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I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

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