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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Orson Welles

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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

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