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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Orson Welles

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth

I 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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