Conrad Hall Quotes
But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
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But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
