Sydney Pollack (Sydney Irwin Pollack) Quotes
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Sydney Pollack
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
Gary McCord
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
Jack Bruce
Cream
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
Cameron Winklevoss
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
Umberto Eco
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
I. King Jordan
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Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
LaToya London
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
Oprah Winfrey
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
Sam Heughan
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Me, I don't need money.
Marat Safin
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
Forest Whitaker
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Abu Bakr
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Talking to Petrus is like punching a bag of sand. 'Are you giving him up?' 'Yes, I am giving him up.'
J. M. Coetzee
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I was patriarch To Elijah and Elijah. I was there at the crucifixion Of the merciful Mabon.
Taliesin
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People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.
Ai Weiwei
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Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
Clive Barker
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle
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Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.
W. H. Auden
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Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
Kamila Shamsie
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
Ted Kotcheff
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
Irma S. Rombauer
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Sydney Pollack
