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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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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Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.
David Blunkett
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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
Emil Cioran
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He also noted, in explaining his methodology for the workshop, that when he had reflected and meditated on the pre-Hellenic myths until he 'became filled with a myth', the ways in which he thought about natural phenomena and even the entire universe were qualitatively different from the perceptions that woud have arisen if he had been immersed in, say, the patriarchal, industrialized, competitive, Victorian world that was Darwin's frame of reference. Swimme concluded that the myth's have a very deep biological basis and that by allowing ourselves to be filled with a myth, the universe itself is altered because our relationship to the universe is altered in a very real sense.
Charlene Spretnak
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Sunday itself-that unfortunate failure of a holyday as it too often proved, what with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it …
Charles Lamb
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.
Al Pacino
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Sydney Pollack
