Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

Nobody really turns out too happy in any of my stuff. It's really strange, because I'm actually a pretty happy person. I'm not walking around giggling or anything like that, but I've got this feeling that everything is okay with my life.

Donald Ray Pollock

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LifeHappyWalkingMy LifePerson

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

Jim Elliot

SeaSchoolI AmSailLibrarySails

When you're fearful, you stumble.

Jenna Jameson

FearYouStumbleFearful

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

Andrea Bocelli

BornLandMoreLittleWherePianist

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

John Katzman

I AmPeopleCollaborationStartLook

Equality implies individuality.

Trey Anastasio

EqualityIndividualityImplies

Abortion is a question of choice.

Robert Casey

AbortionChoiceQuestion

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Russell Baker

TodayDayWineWhiteYoungGlass

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

PoliticsSoulReligionBodySame

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

Chevy Chase

LiveMoving OnMeMovingNightYear

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

Britt Ekland

LifeWomenMy LifeDaysKeepLike

In Pope Francis's 'Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love), an apostolic exhortation on Catholic family life, he does not make earth-shattering doctrinal changes with regards to divorced Catholics, same-sex married Catholics, or the church's stance on homosexuality.

Anthea Butler

LifeFamilyLoveJoyChurchChanges

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

Suzanne Vega

MotherDisciplineWifeAnythingMuch

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