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Kevin Pollak Quotes

I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 30, 1957

Topics

Life Think Go Important Worst First

The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward successful ideas, no matter who invents them. But to remain competitive in a free market, companies must exercise discipline to meet quantitative goals and eventually become cashflow positive.

Positive Goals Technology Discipline

We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.

Children Think Rules Go Responsible

Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.

Life Father Me Early Nobody Said

I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

Life My Life Career Say Changed

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

Education Time Lie Government Me

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

Radio University Michigan Wanted

The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

People Employees Powerful Down Poor

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

Douglas Rushkoff

Children Decisions Marketing Economy

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

Debbie Reynolds

Yourself Sorry Feel Easy You Down

Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore.

Change Science Beginning Physics New

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

People Me Details Problem Guilty

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

School Musicians Now Jazz My Own Up

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