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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.
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