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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Orson Welles

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
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
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
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
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
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing

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