If you list the qualities that we consider feminin... -Sydney Pollack

If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea....
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field....
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way....
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it....
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business....
If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the ...
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into...
What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. An...
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Patience Quotes to Explore

For me, I enjoy developing young players and I enjoy the challenge of polishing a rough talent so that it can become a gem. You have to have patience,...
I do have patience. I can exercise substantial patience when I need to....
I don't have the patience and the strength to hold on to the grudges....
Patience is a key to success. I rely on that....
Patience has never been my strongest point and to spend 22 days in intensive care and 72 days in one room you need tremendous patience....
My mom told me years ago I got the patience of Job, so I'll stick something out for awhile....
I am who I am and the biggest thing I can learn, as I've said, is patience....
I feel like patience is sometimes better than pride, and I'm a very patient fighter....
Sometimes patience pays. That's what I always thought....
Football has no patience....