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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.

Orson Welles

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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
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 don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
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
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman

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