Donald Ray Pollock Quotes
If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.
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Developing prayer fitness is similar to developing physical fitness: we must follow a pattern in order to stay balanced.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.
