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Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.


Sydney Smith

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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