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.Donald Ray Pollock
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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.
Barton Gellman -
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe -
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
Taylor Caldwell -
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.
Vera Wang -
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.
Nancy A. Collins
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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.
I. King Jordan -
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
Barry Bostwick -
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
Jaclyn Smith -
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.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
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.
Gail Collins -
I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita
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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.
Narendra Modi -
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Zebulon Pike -
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund Hillary -
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
Caio Fonseca -
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.
Tariq Ramadan -
That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
Nancy Jo Sales
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Language is a system of signs that express ideas, and is therefore comparable to a system of writing, the alphabet of deaf-mutes, symbolic rites, polite formulas, military signals, etc. But it is the most important of all these systems.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
William Shakespeare -
Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man.
Jack Thorne -
Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
Anthony Marra -
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.
Donald Ray Pollock