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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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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To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
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I love making music, though. I love playing.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
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I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
