Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
