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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.

Orson Welles

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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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
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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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself

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