Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

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

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.