Conrad Hall Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.
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The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.
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At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
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There are things that I won't joke about, but it's not because I don't think they're funny or they can't be made funny. It's just that they don't fit my particular skill set.
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tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.
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Photography is a very important part of my life.
