Decided Quote by Donald Ray Pollock Download Open image “When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.” — Donald Ray Pollock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decided Fifty Go Graduate Graduate school Graduates Mill Mills Quit Quitting School Turned
My paternal grandfather worked in the mill all his life. My father worked in the mill almost his whole life. I worked in the… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old. — Dixie Carter Copy Share Image
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
“Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.” — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“It's hard to live a good life...It seems like the Devil don't ever let up.” — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up… — Parminder Nagra Copy Share Image
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
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