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?
Frederik Pohl
Quotes to Explore
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.
Aaliyah
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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.
Hank Azaria
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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.
Natasha Trethewey
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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.
Sally Mann
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Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.
Chiaki Kuriyama
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
Margaret Thatcher
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I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.
Glen Campbell
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At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.
Victoria Secunda
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Everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.
Kristen Stewart
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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?
Frederik Pohl