Frederik Pohl Quotes
I don’t think you know what it’s like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What’s the good of a man who’s upside down?

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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.
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A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.
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Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.
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I don’t think you know what it’s like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What’s the good of a man who’s upside down?