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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Orson Welles

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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food 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
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet

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