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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Orson Welles

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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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
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
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
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
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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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior

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