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

Orson Welles

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
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
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention

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