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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

Orson Welles

Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
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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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

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