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" I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it. "
Sidney Poitier
Every
Moment
Single
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" If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. "
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" As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents. "
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" When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard. "
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" So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether. "
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Journey
" To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. "
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" My father was very big on marriage. "
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Very
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" I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. "
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People
Country
" In America, it is difficult to be your own man. "
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" I cannot be understood in three minutes. "
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Cannot
Minutes
" But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. "
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Always
My Own
" I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. "
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Born
Early
Life
" There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. "
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Ethnic
Everywhere
Racial
" I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me. "
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Me
Never
" We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. "
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Suffer
Perfection
Loved
" An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. "
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More
Satisfied
Return
" I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. "
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People
Miami
Black
" History passes the final judgment. "
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Final
Passes
Judgment
" If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. "
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You
Career
Going
" I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. "
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Me
Sometimes
Take
" I'm not a library. "
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Library
" Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. "
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Only
Things
Wanted
" My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name. "
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Mother
Family
Father
" Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. "
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Compared
Easy
Ride
" My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me. "
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Mother
Father
Family
" I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her. "
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Me
Mother
" To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. "
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Morning
Wake Up
" My father was the quintessential husband and dad. "
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Husband
Quintessential
Dad
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Offered
Get
" I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. "
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Father
Nothing