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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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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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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Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.
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An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
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I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.
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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
