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Eileen Pollack Quotes

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1956

Topics

Growing Up Growing Up Wanted

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

Baseball Cricket American Try Up

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

Live World Again Once Private Until

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Name Band Always Big Got Wanted

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Faith People American Values Country

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

Live New York You New Soviet Union

Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.

Baseball Perception Think You Boring

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

Life Work Beautiful Someone Real Us

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Art Writing World Marathon Over

There is no upside for the U.K. in Brexit. Only costs that can be avoided and advantages to be seized by remaining in Europe. No one should have to pay the Brexit tax.

Jose Angel Gurria

Tax Pay Europe Brexit Upside Only

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I Am People Environment Find Places

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

Political You Canada Afraid Noble

I didn't have a lot of men to ask questions of when I was starting out. There were two female directors people suggested I talk to when I was starting out, and they were Nancy Meyers and Kathryn Bigelow.

Men People Questions Talk Ask Out

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