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've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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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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Being evil is easy.
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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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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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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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I don't want to be someone else.
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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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If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.
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I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.
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Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.
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I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.
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The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
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I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
