Sydney Pollack (Sydney Irwin Pollack) Quotes
I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.Sydney Pollack
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
Tananarive Due -
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen -
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
Barney Oliver -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
Manuel Puig
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
Kate Mara -
Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. Kinsella -
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
Joanne Rowling -
'You guys have a death list?' Ronan broke in. 'That is fucking dark. Am I on it?''Some days, I wish,' Blue said.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
Yoweri Museveni -
Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it.
Walter Scott
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Hearts are worn in these dark ages;You're not alone in this story's pages.Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying,And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in.
Sarah McLachlan -
The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
Jim Cooper -
I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
Donatella Versace -
Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character.
Kimberly Elise -
The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.
Dominique Dawes -
From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
Deborah Cox
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I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
Deborah Cox -
The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
Carmen Agra Deedy -
Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
Paris Hilton -
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
Sydney Pollack