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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.

Orson Welles

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
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
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity

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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