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" I'll always be chasing you... Glory. "
Sidney Poitier
Chasing
You
Always
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" I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life. "
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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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Back
Just
" I had two roles for which I compromised. "
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Two
Which
" 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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" My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. "
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Race
Man
Class
" I get offered work these days. "
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Offered
Get
" 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
" History passes the final judgment. "
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Final
Passes
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" To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. "
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Morning
Wake Up
" I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. "
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Use
" 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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Accept
Positive
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" 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
" 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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God
Me
Mother
" I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. "
Sidney Poitier
Myself
Uncomfortable
People
" I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being. "
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Question
Myself
Human
" 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. "
Sidney Poitier
Only
Things
Wanted
" I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. "
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Father
Poor
Things
" I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. "
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Something
Expect
People
" So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. "
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Life
Me
Much
" I don't very often read novels. "
Sidney Poitier
Novels
Read
Very
" I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. "
Sidney Poitier
Moral
Easy
Know
" Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. "
Sidney Poitier
Compared
Easy
Ride
" I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life. "
Sidney Poitier
Race
Life
Never
" In America, it is difficult to be your own man. "
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Own
Man
Difficult
" I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. "
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My Life
Father
Nothing
" There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. "
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Ethnic
Everywhere
Racial
" 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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Wonderful
Life
Family
" The journey has been incredible from its beginning. "
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Journey
Incredible
Been
" 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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I Am
Life
Person