Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

Donald Ray Pollock

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I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

Jeremy Sisto

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I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother's favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Carole King and the Carpenters, or my dad's jazz music.

Andra Day

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My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

Amy Sherald

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I understand what needs to be done to fix the economy.

Steve Mnuchin

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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Simon Hoggart

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We're playing strip billiards.

Roger Vadim

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If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

Rupert Murdoch

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When you enter into a struggle, and you genuinely believe in what you are doing, and you live under injustice, and you live under a regime that is dictatorial and oppresses people, there have to be sacrifices.

Roy Bennett

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I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

Mike McCready

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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

Louise Penny

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Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

Lisa Jewell

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I started acting as a way to support myself.

Dinah Manoff

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