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Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
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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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship

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