Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESWorking is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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