Sarah Polley Quotes
I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.
Quotes to Explore
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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He 'the male' is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
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The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
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I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.
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I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy.
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In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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I think people always respond to real moments.
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I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.
