Frederik Pohl Quotes
All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.
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I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
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I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.
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For the robust, an error is information.
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I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.
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A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success.
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All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.
