Conrad Veidt Quotes
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
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Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
