Abraham Polonsky Quotes

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

Abraham Polonsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1910 - October 26, 1999

Topics

DayYouLuckyGetAnybody

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Jim Morrison

DeathWingsAngelsShouldersSmooth

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

Jerry Garcia

StrongAudienceSuitOurStrong Suit

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Desmond Bernal

GivingWishesPlaySatisfiedBecause

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

Robert Richardson

ChangeFutureRespectPastPresent

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

Trent Reznor

PeopleGrowing UpAttentionGrowing

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

Tom Waits

RestaurantYearsAltarRayWorked

I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules.

Rupert Friend

SelfRulesStudyingWithoutDefense

I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

Mike Singletary

OpportunityMyselfBestForwardLook

A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.

Donna Lynne Champlin

StoryReachEnoughYouEmotionsWay

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Christopher Lasch

NatureConnectionTelevisionSense

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

Chris Patten

TimeProblemsWrongSaidDifficult

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

ChildrenGreatParentingMistake

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