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Sydney Pollack

"I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."

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Sydney Pollack
"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."

Movies

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Sydney Pollack
"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."

Movies

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Sydney Pollack
"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."

Creativity

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Sydney Pollack
"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."

Nature

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Sydney Pollack
"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life."

Home

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Sydney Pollack
"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."

People

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Sydney Pollack
"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."

Diversity

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Sydney Pollack
"I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people."

People

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Sydney Pollack
"You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie."

Art

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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 to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."

Politics

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