Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLESWhen people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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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