Conrad Veidt Quotes
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I was a tomboy.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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Once I start shooting that jumper, I feel like I will be one of those guys that is hard to stop.
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I'm proud as heck of our team, and we're just disappointed we don't have a chance to go on.
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We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?
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I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.
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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
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In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
