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Joseph Conrad Quotes

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Courage Woman Man Want Will She

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.

Mother Music Loved Much Very Were

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

Good I Am People Bad Never Seem

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

Day Team Bad Day You Bad Mud

By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.

Work Think You Seriously Never Hard

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Home Bible Reading Appetite Taught

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our places. So there's room for a movie for her, but I don't think it will hew to the book.

History Book Think Interesting She

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

People Political Perfect Sometimes

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.

Singing Want Prove Try Well Sing

I remember, as a kid, nothing struck me funnier than seeing Richard Nixon look into the camera and sincerely tell everyone he didn't know where the 18 minutes had gone from his tapes. But there was all this sweat on his upper lip. We knew he was lying. He knew we knew he was lying. But he was determined to tell the lie.

Lie Me Camera Remember Seeing Look

I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.

Myself You Know Done Why Try

In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.

Time Space Year Late News Boy

The first time I saw my look on a real person was in Paris, and I felt a little shock, a little thrill that went through my body. And that thrill never goes away - never.

Time Body Look Paris Person Never

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