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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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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Talking to Petrus is like punching a bag of sand. 'Are you giving him up?' 'Yes, I am giving him up.'
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
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If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
