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Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general. ↗

— Zac Efron

#business #easy #general #going #granted

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#day #down #first #garden #had

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#access #agencies #darfur #estimate #estimated

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

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#day #hundred #i #imagine #most

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#also #caring #chaos #chaotic #dad

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#bohemian #i #i am #know #now

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 grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#bicycle #bikes #chicago #conscious #down

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