Sidney Altman Quotes
We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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I wish all men were like dogs.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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I have always said, '40 is the new 20,' and I truly believe that, but it for sure takes a lot of hard work, education, and discipline to keep it all together as we make our way to 50 and beyond.
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The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.
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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
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I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
