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Orson Welles

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
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk 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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation

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