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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• 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.

  

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• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

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• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

  

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• 'You guys have a death list?' Ronan broke in. 'That is fucking dark. Am I on it?''Some days, I wish,' Blue said.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Failures