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Sydney Pollack Quotes

I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Good Performance Think My Life

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Faith Action Tax Say Policy Here

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

John J. McLaughlin

Attitude Opinion Want Just Loud

Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.

Women Passion Time Comedy Doing Way

When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.

Relationship Building Attention You

Sometimes I feel like 'Avenue Q' or even 'Book of Mormon' might not have happened without 'Urinetown.' 'Urinetown' sort of paved the way, just in terms of what Broadway would accept in its houses. It just blows my mind, the stuff 'Book of Mormon' gets away with. It's way farther across the line than 'Urinetown' ever was.

Mind Book Feel Sometimes Accept Way

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

Mary-Louise Parker

Life People Me Forward Problem

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

People Me You NASA Go Kind

'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would have been any different if the Germans had paraded victoriously through London and Generalfeldmarschall Von Runstedt made his headquarters at Claridge's?

Motto Say London Through June Been

I like to be bold and different and to go and try things.

Bold Go Try Things Different Like

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

Louie Schwartzberg

Nature Fly Upside Down You Down May

It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.

Life People Ideas World Start Story

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

Good Respect Poetry Feel Celebrity

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