Eileen Pollack Quotes
If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
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Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.
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...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
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What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.
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If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
