Frederick Pollock Quotes
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I never read about photography.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.
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In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
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The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
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To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.
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Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
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I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
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An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
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The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
