Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
Natasha Little
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I do not cook.
Edie Falco
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
Kate Adie
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I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
Rachel Dratch
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
Sabrina Carpenter
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In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.
Lance Loud
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I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.
Garry Winogrand
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Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.
William Baldwin
