Eileen Pollack Quotes
In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.
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In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand. 'Bill Gates - Rotary International' Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (21 January 2009)
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When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.
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In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.
