I want to go on TV to perform. I'm not conceited, but I am good at what I do. It's just the vehicles are not there anymore.
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
'Atomic Blonde' is about the characters' bigger existential crisis and their world. It's not so much the conceit of the spy game; it's more that being a spy sucks. But we're going to make it fun to watch.
I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.
One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.
