Donald Ray Pollock Quotes
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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Each time I turn on my own television screen and see reflections of myself in other courageous young LGBTQ-identifying actors and artists, I know that the dream is expanding. That would not be possible without LGBTQ Pride. Celebrate yourself, and the world will catch up.
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The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.
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I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
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As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.
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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
