Sydney Pollack (Sydney Irwin Pollack) Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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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.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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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.
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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.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
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Me, I don't need money.
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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.
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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.
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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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There are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
