Conrad Hall Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
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I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.
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Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.
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Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
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I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're certainly aware of the iPhone.
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After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
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Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.
