Sidney Poitier Quotes
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
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To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
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The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
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I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.
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If you didn't go out every time it was raining, you wouldn't get anything done. So it's a case of making the right clothing choice in terms of waterproof, breathable, warm clothing.
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Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
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After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
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I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.