A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.


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ALGERNON SYDNEY
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER
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
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
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
'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself...
SYDNEY WAYSER
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
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SYDNEY MADWED
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the k...
SYDNEY BRENNER
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
The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of ...
SYDNEY WAYSER
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
Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would re...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the ...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn'...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brookly...
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...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET