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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!

Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
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
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
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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

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