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Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Donald Ray Pollock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Plant Shoe Years Paper Ohio Factory

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

Great Death Risks Me Person Decide

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Robert Kazinsky

Think More Human She Human Being

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.

John Rhys-Davies

Nature Change Men Game Top Going

I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

Dog Mind Book End Plan Bed

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

People Think You Accept Need High

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

Home Cooking Looking Learn You Go

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

Sociology Professor Been Would Liked

Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.

You Will Never Nation Defend Head

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Control Motherhood Way Own Watch

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

Jason Calacanis

Creative Happen Greatest Manhattan

I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.

Good Doing Doing Good Just Records

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

Achievement Equality People American

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