I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLESI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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