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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Orson Welles

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.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
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
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
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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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
ORSON WELLES

Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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
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 kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

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