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 am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
Tecumseh
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
Al Pacino
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Allen Tate
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
Walt Mossberg
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
Vijay
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There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.
Peter Stone
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All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet
