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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Orson Welles

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
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
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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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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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