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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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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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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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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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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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.
