"What I really want to do is produce. There isnâ€™t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore."

-- Sydney Pollack

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“When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn't feel he could fully commit to a creative life - he had this voice in the back of his head that said, "I need to make money." So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years.”
“The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.”
“I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.”
“Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u ...”
“All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”
“When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.”
“L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.”
“There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.”

Source : Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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