Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard."
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Sycophants
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Rollo May
Psychologist, Author
"In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents."
Cynthia Lennon
Author, Musician
"Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived."
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