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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Orson Welles

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time 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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
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
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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