Drew Pomeranz Quotes
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
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As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
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Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'
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Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
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Three precepts are offered to constitute a foundation for the use of laboratory experimental methods in testing hypotheses about the behavior of allocation mechanisms.
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A tragedy for the party. He's got no ideas, no experience and no hope.
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I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.
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Require rising standards of adequacy.
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My mother had naturally spiced the pudding with sixpences and threepenny bits, called zacs and trays respectively. Grandpa had collected one of these in the oesophagus. He gave a protracted, strangled gurgle which for a long time we all took to be the beginning of some anecdote.
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Dear father, I have received several letters from Mary and yourself, but as I have to deal with nineteen-twentieths of those received, have neglected to answer them.
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If it's correct to say that there is a closing of minds around the world, story is one of the most powerful agents of reviving the conversation between ideas. Ultimately, that's all stories are trying to do - open the conversation. They cannot give a proscription. It's not clairvoyant art.
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The straight path must sometimes be crooked.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
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My goal is to go out there, make every start.
