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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
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
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
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
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself

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