Donald Ray Pollock Quotes
When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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God knows Ed Rendell can't pay for everything he promised. We're going to have to make some tough decisions.
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It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
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I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.
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Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.
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When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.
