#ai

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#doing #every #expectation #get #grew

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#always #began #believe #bizarre #directors

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#books #certain #editor #house #i

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#belief #complain #deep #developed #inner

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#easy #film #funding #i #i think

Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#dramatic #effects #getting #like #off

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#art #artist #created #even #good

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#all-around #dissent #duty #matter #often

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #failings #fault #forget #man

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#birth #brother #caused #certain #elder