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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
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
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
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
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
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
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

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