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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
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
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
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
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
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
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion

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