A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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