Neal Pollack Quotes
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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In my beginning is my end.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
