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Joseph Conrad Quotes

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: polish
Birth: December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

Topics

Climb Legal Mankind Upward Those

As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special.

Life Journey Sun Wake Up Desert You

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

Age Hope Die Stage Playing Peter

I've got quite a few inspirations - the list is kind of endless!

Kind Got Endless Quite Few List

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

Age Respect Old Age Mind Proud Now

If I were to take five comic books, from four different publishers and Marvel, and lay them out, even if you didn't know the characters, you would be able to take a look at that Marvel comic and go, 'That's Marvel.' There's something unique about the way the story is presented.

Story You Unique Look Go Know

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

Water New York You New Village

I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly.

Reading Internet Go Never Audience

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Wisdom Age Sometimes Up Come Just

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Myself Trying I Can Different Just

Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.

Music Science World Fashion Look

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

Myself Trust People Me Friends You

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

Life Time Balance Story You Person

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