Neal Pollack Quotes
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment—that which they cannot anticipate.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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'Sounds impressive. And expensive.''Not at all.' Danziger shook his head firmly. 'It will cost, all told, only a little over three million dollars, less than the cost of two hours of war, and a better buy.'
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I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
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The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government.
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Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.
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Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
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You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
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John Goodman has such a good way of breaking the ice. He's so good at being himself. A lot of people aren't really good at that. He knows that he's a legend. He knows that he's one of the greatest.
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I don't have that many friends.
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People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
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One fails forward toward success.
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I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.
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My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.
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I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment—that which they cannot anticipate.
