Donald Ray Pollock Quotes
I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.Donald Ray Pollock
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Abu Bakr -
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg -
I think we know how to do Mars.
Mae Jemison -
I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
Valerie Plame -
Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
Daniel Gillies -
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
Laura Ingraham
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
Adam Lambert -
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
Ira Glass -
For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin -
If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
Halima Aden -
Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
Victoria Moran
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
Camilla Lackberg -
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
Patricia Ireland -
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller -
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
Xun Kuang -
I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
Gary Sheffield -
You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
Ralph Bakshi
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The customer in this business is now more business-orientated than technically orientated.
B. R. Hayden -
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
J. G. Ballard -
I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of, instead of hiding the structure and making it look organic and natural, we're going to put the structure on the outside. But most of the time, at least for me, all I could attend to [in Swing Time] was that act of structural self-consciousness.
Zadie Smith -
I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.
Ethan Hawke -
I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
Donald Ray Pollock