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

Orson Welles

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
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
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
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
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 Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time

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