Steven Conrad famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. I don't think my way is any better than anybody else's way, but I know they're not real. I like to lean into the make-believe aspect of movies. That's why they're better than real life.
-- Steven Conrad

#Real #Believe #Thinking
The challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings - like, if a movie's about being demoralized at work, it should feel familiar to people, whether you're a roofer or a lifeguard. But there's a million different ways to be demoralized, especially at work.
-- Steven Conrad

#People #Challenges #Feelings
Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.
-- Steven Conrad

#Dream #Protect
I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.
-- Steven Conrad

#Believe #Hard Work #Two
As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.
-- Steven Conrad

#Girl #Princess #Boys
The people around whom I've lived most of my life, they're similar. They have same expectations of life that aren't exaggerated, they could be accomplished, they could get what they want. But they could not, too. It's not to be taken for granted. Even getting by, and being satisfied, barely, is hard.
-- Steven Conrad

#Taken #People #Expectations
I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.
-- Steven Conrad

#Thinking #Should Have #Challenges
I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.
-- Steven Conrad

#Fate #Thinking #Force
It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.
-- Steven Conrad

#Wise #Men #Healthy
Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.
-- Steven Conrad

#Running #Race #People
I just think that movies are really fake; they should be fake.
-- Steven Conrad

#Thinking #Fake #Should
I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.
-- Steven Conrad

#Silly #Thinking #Equal

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