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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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
Haile Gebrselassie -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti -
The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
Sam Brownback -
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
Madeline Zima -
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.
Maisie Williams
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid -
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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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.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
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.
Pat Garrett -
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.
Rachel Joyce -
The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
Patricia McBride -
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Jock Sturges -
The regular Democratic Party and its organization was run by men who looked on women as little more than machine parts.
Ann Richards -
Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.
Douglas Brinkley -
I have somehow something like 'influence' … In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence … my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra … has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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