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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Orson Welles

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
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
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

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