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Sidney Poitier

"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."

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Donna Grant

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Donna Grant

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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Donna Grant

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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Donna Grant

"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."

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Donna Grant

"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

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Donna Grant

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

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Donna Grant

"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."

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Donna Grant

"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."

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Donna Grant

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

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Donna Grant

"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."

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Sidney Poitier
"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."

Life

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Sidney Poitier
"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."

Father

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Sidney Poitier
"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."

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Sidney Poitier
"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."

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Sidney Poitier
"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."

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Sidney Poitier
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."

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Sidney Poitier
"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."

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Sidney Poitier
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

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Sidney Poitier
"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."

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Sidney Poitier
"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

Life

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