Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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Dance is my passion.
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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
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None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
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Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.
