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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

Orson Welles

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
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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’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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself

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