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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I want to do another reality show. It's based on The Mole. It's about sexually transmitted diseases. It's called "God, I Hope That's a Mole."
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.
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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?
