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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We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.
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She was a giant in the 20th century for women, and most significantly was a catalyst for change in the American culture. She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
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I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.
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I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
