Conrad Veidt Quotes

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Conrad Veidt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 22, 1893 - April 3, 1943

Topics

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When I got out of college and signed a contract to play pro football in the USFL, the first thing I bought was a Remington 1100 shotgun and a Remington .30-06.

Jim Kelly

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'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

Joe Morton

GoodOpportunityHeartThinkThought

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

Jennifer Carpenter

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Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

Roxane Gay

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When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

Mary J. Blige

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I would love to shoot in San Francisco permanently. It would be such a joy to come back home full circle.

Michael Trucco

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My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Michael Shannon

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I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

LL Cool J

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It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Jose Maria Aznar

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If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.

Conrad Anker

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God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Bob Marley

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In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Mariella Frostrup

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