Sydney Pollack Quotes

It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.

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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No matter how lofty a film is, it becomes a product after entering the market. It has a price. I think no matter what your purpose of shooting it, it has to have artistic value and then sell. But you can't make money if it doesn't have artistic value.

Jiang Wen

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To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

Angela Merkel

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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

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Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.'

Stephen Vincent Benet

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It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.

Robby Gordon

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I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

Louis Oosthuizen

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When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Liya Kebede

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Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

Liz Williams

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I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way.

Conor Maynard

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There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

Clarence Thomas

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Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.

Sunidhi Chauhan

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I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians.

Pauline Hanson

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