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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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 dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision

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