Sidney Poitier Quotes

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

Sidney Poitier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

Jill Scott

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I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

Jennifer Egan

GoSayMeanWriteFirstThings

I've never been onstage in my life.

Anna Friel

LifeMy LifeNeverBeenOnstage

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

Steve Carell

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There's a right way to sell and a wrong way to sell.

Stanley Marcus

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Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

Steven Pinker

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I believe good corporate governance is critical in enhancing competitiveness and creating industry - leading profitable growth and superior returns for every stakeholder of the institution.

Shiv Nadar

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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mike Tyson

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We will support anything to stabilize the oil demand and supply.

Mohammad bin Salman

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We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.

Louie Gohmert

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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Bobby Seale

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You basically do have a TV show when you're making stuff online. You have an audience that you make stuff for regularly.

Anthony Padilla

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