"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
-Sidney Poitier
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"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.“
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"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
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"I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden."
-Sidney Poitier
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"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."
-Sidney Poitier
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"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."
-Sidney Poitier
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"My father was very big on marriage."
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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
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"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
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"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
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"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
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"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
-Ray Bradbury
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