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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Orson Welles

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
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
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 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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