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Sidney Poitier Quotes

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 20, 1924

Topics

Logic You Career Reason Going Get

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Respect People World Back Admire

If you can't stop singing as you walk through the halls of your house, or you love performing in your local talent show, YouTube is such a good platform to share that side of you. It's a place for people who have passions, and the audience is people who appreciate those passions.

Love Good Walk Talent People You

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

Waiting Feel You Create Own Sell

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Life People Famous Feel Person Been

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Life Relationships Personal My Own

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.

War Energy Security Create New Oil

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

Mistake Think Lying True I Think

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Tomorrow People Matter Punishment

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

Trying You Go Know Never Open

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

Live Shoes Red Game Guitar Reach

What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they're going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can't we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?

Social Media Someone Media Stop Why

Growing up, I've always been the baby. I'm the younger of two girls in my family, my friends are always older than I am, and I'm a rather small person in stature as well.

Family I Am Baby Growing Up Small

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