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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Orson Welles

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
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.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
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
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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop

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