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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Orson Welles

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
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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
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
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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
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
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion

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