Conrad Vernon Quotes
The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite cult-classic from my high school years is an honor. Toxie is an underground icon. My favorite kind.
Quotes to Explore
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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I'm not an intimate person, really.
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I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
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There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite cult-classic from my high school years is an honor. Toxie is an underground icon. My favorite kind.
