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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
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work

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