Sidney Poitier Quotes
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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Sometimes the fans want it both ways, of course. They want to feel like they're influencing the show, and at the same time, they want to think that showrunners have the story all mapped out in our brains. But it can't be both. In truth, we were usually far ahead of the fan feedback.
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
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I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.
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Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.
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Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.
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Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
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You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.
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There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.
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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
