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Orson Welles

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
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
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’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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True

I started at the top and worked my way down.

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