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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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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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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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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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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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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I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.
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But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
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There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
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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.
