Sydney Pollack Quotes

Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film.

Sydney Pollack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Jo Nesbo

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Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

Jen Lancaster

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My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.

John David Washington

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I was willing to walk away from my dream job, let's leave it at that. In order for me to do that, I had to be true to my convictions and what makes you a human being.

Mauro Ranallo

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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Ann Landers

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More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?

Michael Gerber

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It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.

Sidharth Malhotra

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The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.

Simon Greenleaf

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Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

Tom Sturridge

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I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

Rupert Graves

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I don't believe in depriving myself; it's an unhealthy state of mind.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I love to see women just have on their own, and you watch the guys do it all the time. They go out on the road with each other - probably don't even like each other, but they going to get that money.

Missy Elliott

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