Conrad Hall Quotes
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.
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I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.
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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
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I've been 6'4" since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.
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Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
