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Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.


John Polkinghorne


#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.


Sydney Pollack


#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.


Sydney Pollack


#art #art form #every #film #form

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.


Sydney Pollack


#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.


Sydney Pollack


#college #did #envied #i #never

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.


Michael Pollan


#always #anyway #been #direct #direct experience

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.


Michael Pollan


#comic writing #finding #funny #funny way #i

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.


Michael Pollan


#believe #blame #convenient #everything #generally

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.


William Pollard


#always #analyzed #before #decision #execute

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.


Sarah Polley


#always #anything #because #been #concerned






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