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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.

Orson Welles

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
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
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 seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work

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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