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Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.


Sydney Brenner

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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 I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH 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 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 American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
SYDNEY POLLACK The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
SYDNEY POLLACK