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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.


Sydney Smith

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SYDNEY SCHANBERG Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn'...
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SYDNEY SCHANBERG 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 I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I ca...
SYDNEY BRENNER For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended u...
SYDNEY POLLACK I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school...
SYDNEY BRENNER We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you k...
SYDNEY POLLACK I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begi...
SYDNEY BRENNER 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 It's a standard 365-day a year thing. You have to be vigilant on animal cruelty.
SYDNEY WHITE Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germ...
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