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

Orson Welles

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
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
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
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
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

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

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