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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• 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.

  

  Olesya Rulin
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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
  • Up
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  • Experience

• 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
  • People
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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.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
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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
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• 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
  • Career
  • Publicity
  • Fox

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
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• My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

  

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• Me, I don't need money.

  

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  • Me
  • Need

• 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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• Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.

  

  Ariel Garten
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• Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • High
  • Soul
  • Earth

• 'Drive' is definitely an inspiration because it was a film that was able to use what would normally be considered cheesy, kind of bold, electronic music choice and pull it off in a mainstream way.

  

  Adam Wingard
  • Music
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• If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Prepares

• The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

  

  Sydney Pollack
  • Film
  • Failure
  • Reasons