Joseph Conrad Quotes
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
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As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
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Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
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I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?
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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
