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Sarah Polley Quotes

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 8, 1979

Topics

Challenge Welcome Person Never Open

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

Work Questions Asking Questions Kind

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

Jerry Pournelle

Lunch Advice You Go Point Take

I could move to New York. I love it here.

Love New York New Here Move Could

Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not.

Ideas Challenges Present Moments

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

Work Mathematics Research Better

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Love Time Happy Doing Done Three

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

Mother New York Me Looking Forward

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Robert Benchley

Myself Death Slow Know Hurry Then

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Douglas Coupland

Future Feel Unexpected Wrong Reason

All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.

Friendship Happy People Be Happy

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

Limits You Choice Kids Made

Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I crossed the road, like the absent-minded animal in a Richard Scarry kid's book.

Animal Child Waiting Road Reading

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