Sylvia Sidney Quotes

I don’t think I’ve ever done a great job and there are no parts I’ve played that I can point to as great. I’m not a fan of myself.

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• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Stop

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Tired

• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Equality
  • Nobody
  • Anyway

• As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Long
  • Chance
  • Going

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Me
  • Couple
  • Garden

• Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Look
  • Now

• I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Man
  • Past
  • Cool

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• I've always liked new writing.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Writing
  • Always
  • New

• I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Inspiration
  • Athlete
  • Champion

• There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Game
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• I like shopping, and I like to drive.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Like
  • Shopping
  • Drive

• Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Feel
  • Face
  • Radio

• The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Universe
  • Demands
  • Notion

• I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Strong
  • Romantic

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Work
  • Job
  • Interesting

• I don’t think I’ve ever done a great job and there are no parts I’ve played that I can point to as great. I’m not a fan of myself.

  

  Sylvia Sidney
  • Job
  • Fan
  • Played