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

Orson Welles

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People

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