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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Orson Welles

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
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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

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