Channing Pollock Quotes

• A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run.

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• Two things are as big as the man who possesses them – neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

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• The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

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• No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

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• No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

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• Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

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• Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

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• A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

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• Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

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Channing Pollock (9)

Birth:	4th March, 1880
Death:	17th August, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Playwright, Screenwriter

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Channing Pollock was born in Washington D.C.. He was an American playwright, critic and writer of film scenarios, including The Evil Thereof.

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