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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

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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility

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