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.
ORSON WELLESWhen people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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