Sydney Pollack Quotes

The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready.

Sydney Pollack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008

Topics

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As a player, you look where I've come from, averaging 'X' amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.

Jimmy Butler

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The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Joan Chen

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When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Jess Glynne

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I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

Max Walker

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Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Max Irons

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In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

Robert Lanza

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Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

Maureen Dowd

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The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

Matt Groening

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I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

Stephen Pagliuca

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I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

Tom Stoppard

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Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

Robert Forster

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The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

Tom Brokaw

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