Donald Ray Pollock Quotes
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
C. L. R. James -
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White -
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher -
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
Edi Rama
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco -
'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
Orson Welles -
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Dambisa Moyo -
Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
Jack Quaid
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong -
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
S. Ansky -
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Rachel Roy -
Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
J. C. Watts -
I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
Katey Sagal -
I can afford to say what I wish.
J. Paul Getty
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
Barry Mann -
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie Chan -
Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
Andy Dunn -
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Dean Smith -
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
David Morrell -
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
Donald Ray Pollock