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Sidney Buchman Quotes

Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro's true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 27, 1902 - August 23, 1975

Topics

Responsibility America True Hollywood

A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.

Year Go Office Over Producer Lived

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

Money Interest Raise Much Provide

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Love Marriage Character Morals Place

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

Wind Story Mystery Long You Run

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

Process Television More Film Just

To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

Change School High School Media You

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

People Consistency Restaurant You

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

Business View Place Africa Difficult

Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.

Heart Soul People You Go Know

Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.

Bruce Wilkinson

Opportunity People Dream Place Lost

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

William Howard Taft

I Am Tired People President Talk

All things come down to your personal relationships.

Down Relationships Personal Things

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