Sydney Biddle Barrows Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I'm exhausted.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.
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With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.
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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
