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Eileen Pollack Quotes

Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1956

Topics

Creative Writing Angst Submit Most

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

Jennifer Garner

Father Mother Passion New York Me

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

Look Done Movies Kind Always Some

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

Man Young Young Man Bring Poem Off

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

Power People You Give Excellent

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Religion Person Decade Without Been

I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.

School World Small Better Doing

When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was particularly interesting and fascinating to me. It's amazing that after 100 years of study of this little parasite, we've not been able to effectively control it.

Work Amazing Me Control Interesting

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Power Great Ideas Medicine Energy

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

Pretend Playing Costume Putting

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

Christine Baranski

People World Creating Movies Never

On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.

Pope Benedict XVI

Love God Faith Me Speak I Can

My mind is my own church.

Mind Church My Own Own

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