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Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.
SYDNEY POLLACK

I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.
SYDNEY POLLACK

I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I a...
SYDNEY POLLACK

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means t...
SYDNEY POLLACK

People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,...
SYDNEY POLLACK

Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar...
SYDNEY POLLACK

When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
SYDNEY POLLACK

American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
SYDNEY POLLACK

There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
SYDNEY POLLACK

Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
SYDNEY POLLACK

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.
SYDNEY POLLACK

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
SYDNEY POLLACK

Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrati...
SYDNEY POLLACK

At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone ...
SYDNEY POLLACK

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing...
SYDNEY POLLACK

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or w...
SYDNEY POLLACK

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need ...
SYDNEY POLLACK

The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
SYDNEY POLLACK

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thi...
SYDNEY POLLACK

I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way ...
SYDNEY POLLACK

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of we...
SYDNEY POLLACK

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
SYDNEY POLLACK

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
SYDNEY POLLACK

Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.
SYDNEY POLLACK

It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you...
SYDNEY POLLACK

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended u...
SYDNEY POLLACK

We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you k...
SYDNEY POLLACK

Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've go...
SYDNEY POLLACK

What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn'...
SYDNEY POLLACK

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decis...
SYDNEY POLLACK

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the peo...
SYDNEY POLLACK

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your periphera...
SYDNEY POLLACK

I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic ai...
SYDNEY POLLACK

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexic...
SYDNEY POLLACK

This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or ...
SYDNEY POLLACK

Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more tempera...
SYDNEY POLLACK

You can't stop traffic on Times Square.
SYDNEY POLLACK

Every good painter paints what he is.
JACKSON POLLACK I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms r...
CHANNING POLLACK We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cart...
NEAL POLLACK This is a paranoid regime. Even if the development of the Caucasus airfields … even if it weren't ...
KENNETH POLLACK [Kenneth Pollack of National Defense University said Saddam Hussein felt he had not lost anything an...
KENNETH POLLACK The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.
KENNETH POLLACK Shit, I have already read this....
MICHAEL POLLACK I don't think the justice system in Suffolk County is prepared to admit that in what was possibly th...
BARRY POLLACK He's very much losing the forest for the trees. The idea that a jury would hear from all 20 of these...
BARRY POLLACK We're in the people business. It takes people to take care of people.
BARRY POLLACK I just love being out there with these guys and I knew we'd have a chance to win this game late,
BEN POLLACK A man would have to practice 36 hours a day to play music like Peck!.
BEN POLLACK There is just one problem here - we're not in a jungle and boys aren't lions.
WILLIAM POLLACK At 5 years old boys feel shamed if they don't push away from mom.
WILLIAM POLLACK Connection, connection, connection. That's what they need. That is what they don't get.
WILLIAM POLLACK There is a crisis in boyhood in America today.
WILLIAM POLLACK Early on, many boys give up. Once they turn it off, they rarely go back to it.
WILLIAM POLLACK It's still a man's world.
WILLIAM POLLACK I think he's got it basically right, although I don't believe the system was set up purposely to hur...
WILLIAM POLLACK Many people, ... base their thinking about boys on the myth that 'testosterone = aggressiveness = bo...
WILLIAM POLLACK Research shows, ... that while mothers tend to soothe their children and shield them from too much s...
WILLIAM POLLACK But that (My brother's first science fair) project changed my life.
EILEEN POLLACK

The painting has a life of its own.
JACKSON POLLACK Research shows, ... that while mothers tend to soothe their children and shield them from too much s...
WILLIAM POLLACK A betting man would say that 2005 will end up being the peak of the cycle.
ELLIOTT POLLACK The housing market is at record levels, and commercial real estate markets should continue to be str...
ELLIOTT POLLACK It is my fervent hope that they don't do the same thing this time. The level of single-family housin...
ELLIOTT POLLACK There is still a great deal of untouched equity in homes. Employment, as well as real income, are ex...
ELLIOTT POLLACK Arizona is enjoying boom conditions the likes of which it has not seen in more than a decade. When e...
ELLIOTT POLLACK Significant numbers of seniors are going to wind up being worse off than prior to the (Medicare) pro...
RON POLLACK They worked closely with us and they listened well.
DAVID POLLACK You can't control all this stuff. A lot of people get caught up in the moment and do crazy things.
DAVID POLLACK When you're young, the more you do something, the more familiar it becomes, the more comfortable you...
DAVID POLLACK I definitely think there are differences. But all differences aside, you've still got to play the ga...
DAVID POLLACK It'd be OK if went .500 and we gave it everything we got, ... But I want the national championship...
DAVID POLLACK It's average, ... Not phenomenal by any means.
DAVID POLLACK Coach can sit back there and tell you something, but unless you see him do it, sometimes you're kind...
DAVID POLLACK learned more in these first couple weeks, and since I've started here, than I learned all through co...
DAVID POLLACK It was a lot of fun, ... It's different not being in there the whole time. I'm just trying to learn,...
DAVID POLLACK [Georgia defensive end David Pollack issued the challenge before the 2005 Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla...
DAVID POLLACK It's one of the primary reasons we're having higher yields so far this year.
GARY POLLACK The markets right now are facing a critical juncture and they're trying to determine if the strong e...
GARY POLLACK A rate increase at the March meeting is a done deal. We expect the yield on the 10-year to reach 4.7...
GARY POLLACK Yields are moving higher in a response to an economy that is bouncing back. Inflation is still under...
GARY POLLACK I'm concerned that we will get higher inflation expectations, but that in actuality, inflation will ...
GARY POLLACK World Series of Poker fans around the world can now experience our unique blend of thrills and excit...
JEFFREY POLLACK There was interest in having an event that had a little higher buy-in. Something that would be diffe...
JEFFREY POLLACK This Tournament of Champions is just one way of saying 'thank you' to the skilled and talented playe...
JEFFREY POLLACK We've heard from a number of players that a high buy-in event will enhance the World Series of Poker...
JEFFREY POLLACK This is a terrific addition to our portfolio of sports ventures. We're thrilled Caesars Palace has j...
JEFFREY POLLACK don't live to regret the things you never said
NICK POLLACK The truth is often found in humour.
NICK POLLACK It's a lot of learning through God and learning through your faith that you can accept and learn to ...
KATHLEEN POLLACK I was dating a guy who owned a stripping company. I was a stripper, he is the one who got me pregnan...
KATHLEEN POLLACK I was brought here because I was 4 months pregnant without a home, without anywhere to go. I came he...
KATHLEEN POLLACK I putted great, but I got a lot of breaks today. I made everything.
JOE POLLACK I stupidly switched drivers the first day and I was snipe-hooking it. The second day I hit my regula...
JOE POLLACK I want to get back to the Buick Open and not have 'DAL' after my name.
JOE POLLACK I stupidly switched drivers the first day and I was snipe-hooking it, ... The second day I hit my re...
JOE POLLACK I want to get back to the Buick Open and not have 'DAL' after my name,
JOE POLLACK I putted great, but I got a lot of breaks today, ... I made everything.
JOE POLLACK That Buick Open was fun and a great experience. But it was like I was not in my element. I just coul...
JOE POLLACK It would be too much of a culture change for them not to. We just want to do what's reasonable.
MARILYN POLLACK Student accounting services is up to 50 calls a day regarding this issue.
MARILYN POLLACK It's been very busy at that station. It's seen a lot of customer traffic.
MARILYN POLLACK If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go d...
RON POLLACK

For Gods sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and def...
SYDNEY SMITH

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
SYDNEY SMITH

The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t...
SYDNEY SMITH

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go ac...
SYDNEY BRENNER

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...
SYDNEY SMITH

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
SYDNEY SMITH

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
SYDNEY SMITH

Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The grea...
SYDNEY SMITH

Good friends are good for your health.
SYDNEY SMITH

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
SYDNEY SMITH

One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all th...
SYDNEY SMITH

We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into th...
SYDNEY SMITH

Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn hi...
SYDNEY SMITH

We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
SYDNEY SMITH

The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
SYDNEY SMITH

A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the ...
SYDNEY SMITH

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
SYDNEY SMILES

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting t...
SYDNEY SMITH

Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an...
SYDNEY SMITH

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
SYDNEY SMITH

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after ...
SYDNEY SMITH

No furniture is so charming as books.
SYDNEY SMITH

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite dir...
SYDNEY SMITH

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyo...
SYDNEY SMITH Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SYDNEY HOOK

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
SYDNEY SMITH

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of e...
SYDNEY SMITH

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
SYDNEY SMITH

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...
SYDNEY SMITH

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising wher...
SYDNEY SMITH

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b...
SYDNEY SMITH

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
SYDNEY SMITH

Granted there are instances in which children have been reared in an atmosphere of inconsistency whe...
SYDNEY SMITH

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but...
SYDNEY SMITH

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being...
SYDNEY SMITH

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our...
SYDNEY SMITH

I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
SYDNEY PFIZER

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...
Be what Nature ...
SYDNEY SMITH

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their g...
SYDNEY SMITH

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
SYDNEY SMILES

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
SYDNEY SMITH

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends...
SYDNEY SMITH

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious...
SYDNEY SMITH

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
SYDNEY SMITH

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con...
SYDNEY SMITH

It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is ge...
SYDNEY SMITH

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ...
SYDNEY SMITH

Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
SYDNEY SMITH

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f...
SYDNEY SMITH

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ...
SYDNEY SMITH

A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would...
SYDNEY SMITH

I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
SYDNEY SMITH

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather t...
SYDNEY SMITH

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned...
SYDNEY SMITH

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes...
SYDNEY SMITH

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else...
SYDNEY SMITH

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not bo...
SYDNEY SMITH Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS

Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no m...
SYDNEY SMITH

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
SYDNEY SMITH

Gardens are a form of autobiography.
SYDNEY EDDISON

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...
SYDNEY SMITH I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat...
SYDNEY WAYSER

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SYDNEY MADWED

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni...
SYDNEY MADWED

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this all...
SYDNEY SMITH

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA coul...
SYDNEY BRENNER

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
SYDNEY SMITH

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glasswar...
SYDNEY BRENNER As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
SYDNEY SCHANBERG The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SYDNEY That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH

That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
SYDNEY SMITH

I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
SYDNEY SMITH

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
SYDNEY SMITH

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
SYDNEY SMITH

My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
SYDNEY SMITH

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of ex...
SYDNEY SMITH

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good co...
SYDNEY SMITH

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ...
SYDNEY SMITH

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

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If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

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